High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports

Botswana: Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics

By Andrew Kitili, Bruno Rocha

August 7, 2025

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Andrew Kitili, and Bruno Rocha. "Botswana: Data Quality Assessment for Public Sector Debt Statistics", High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports 2025, 032 (2025), accessed August 8, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229020725.029

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Summary

In May 2025, an assessment was undertaken of the data quality of the public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Botswana against the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS. The mission was as part of a project to strengthen the quality of public sector debt statistics in selected African countries, funded by the Government of Japan. The mission reviewed the PSDS compilation and dissemination practices against each element of the DQAF and presented a series of recommendations to further improve the quality and transparency of the PSDS of Botswana.

Subject: Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), Domestic debt, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Botswana, Business enterprises, Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), Debt Reporting, Debt Transparency, Domestic debt, Government debt management, Government finance statistics, JSA, Public Debt, Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDS), Securities

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