Investment

In order to access further support from the US$250 million Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Aid for Trade fund and increase its participation in global trade, Lesotho has requested the USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub (SATH) to update its Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS). A DTIS evaluates internal and external constraints on a country's integration into the world economy and recommends areas where technical assistance and policy actions can help the country overcome these barriers.

This report is a follow-up to a number of activities that have been initiated to support the harmonization of the listing rules of the stock exchanges in the SADC region. The initial work focused on the analysis of gaps in listing rules using the JSE listing rules as a benchmark.

It is widely accepted that immigration plays an important role in economic growth and prosperity. Immigration enables countries to attract skills and experience that might otherwise not be available, and also to attract investors and entrepreneurs, and thereby to raise economic growth and incomes.

This applies as much to Botswana as to other countries. Botswana's key economic challenges are diversifying the economy through the establishment of new economic activities; promoting entrepreneurship and innovation; promoting new export activities and the penetration of regional and international markets; and engaging with globalization, including the global labor market. Immigration is most often thought of in terms of its ability to relieve skills shortages, but it has a more extensive impact than this. In particular immigration can support diversification by attracting entrepreneurs who will invest in new economic activities, and who can help to develop international markets for goods and services.

Following a request by the Namibia Investment Centre (NIC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub (Trade Hub) carried out a comprehensive audit of the status of the Namibia Investor Roadmap (2005 Roadmap). The goal of this Audit was to assess the status of implementation of the recommendations of the 2005 Roadmap, highlight areas that require further attention and determine necessary next steps.

Investment policy is derived from a government’s overall philosophical approach to economic development and the objectives it sets for itself in putting in place a series of beliefs or aspirations or objectives that will be the defining cornerstone of future activity in the investment area. By providing a clear and definitive understanding of the government‘s approach to development, the private sector is provided with a guarantee that it will be supported by government policy in its role in creating employment, raising national income and generating wealth.