The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Chris Garland has lived in beautiful Gaborone, Botswana, for nearly 40 years. What originally attracted you to Botswana? Over time, I developed connections not only there but across southern Africa, and in my travels it became clear that Botswana was the “place to be” in the region. I left the U.K.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Considered to be among the fast-growing economies in the world, Botswana adopted several initiatives to address unemployment and skills development.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

He points to the inspiring example of Botswana, where a hard-earned culture of property rights and rule of law have fueled economic growth rates to rival the highest-flying Asian Tiger. Entrepreneur. In an awe-inspiring tour de force of exposition, Mr. Ridley takes the reader all the way back through human economic history.

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