The mining sector continues to be the backbone of Botswana’s economy, despite efforts to diversify. Mining is still, by some measures, the largest contributor to gross domestic product (GDP), generates the majority of export earnings, and makes a major contribution to government revenues. The use of mineral revenues is, therefore, of critical importance for sustainable development.
- Quantifying the major physical trends in resource stocks for major minerals;
- Quantifying the major monetary trends in resource stocks for major minerals;
- Exploring the extent to which the government has captured the resource rents from mineral extraction for the country’s development and growth;
- Identifying the uses to which mineral revenues have been put;
- Producing estimates of national mineral wealth;
- Identifying any challenges with regard to the appropriation and use of resource rents; and
- Identifying challenges that need to be addressed for the future compilation of mineral accounts.
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