Economic Growth Potential

The Economic Freedom Index produced by Economic Freedom of the World has rated Botswana with the best economic environment for growth in the whole of Africa and is rated No.26 among all less developed countries in the world with an index rating of 5.6. South Africa, Botswana's closest African rival on the index, with 4.9 points lies in 34th position world wide.

Not such good news for Botswana, however, is its failure to reach the a position in the 46 most competitive economies as rated by the IMD World Competitiveness Year book which bases its ratings on "the ability of a country to create added value and thus increase national wealth by managing assets and processes, attractiveness and aggressiveness, globality and proximity, and by integrating these relationships into an economic and social model". South Africa is rated at 44.