This year’s Local Manufacturing Summit theme, “Shaping the Future of Botswana’s Manufacturing Sector: Exploring Export Markets,” is, from a financing perspective, better understood as a test of readiness. It asks whether firms are structurally positioned to compete beyond a protected domestic market.
In Botswana, that question cannot be separated from the policy environment that has been deliberately built over time to push diversification.
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