Businesses more bullish in 2011

Mmegi: "Businesses in Botswana are showing a significant increase in confidence in 2011 expecting the operating climate to improve fuelling the their willingness to invest more in order to increase production as they expect sales to rise, according to a survey carried out by the Bank of Botswana.

The Business Expectations Survey (BES) shows 67 percent of businesses expect that conditions will be more favourable in the first half of 2011 while 73 percent of respondents believe the whole of 2011 will have improved conditions."