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Unions show scant interest in job creation | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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The labour union is locked in a tussle with the government of Botswana over two issues. The first one, and not in any order, is the Directorate of Public Service Management’s (DPSM) decision to review local travel allowances, popularly known as per diem, for public servants. Previously, public officers were expected to account for their expenses when on mission. However, to reduce paperwork, the government decided to provide per diem to cover accommodation and meals for government employees’ tra
The case for the NHI is unclear | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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There is imminent talk in government circles about setting up a National Health Insurance (NHI). However, the details of the NHI remain sketchy. For now, all we have are platitudes. We hear talk about NHI as a human right in the same manner we hear many politicians refer to education as a fundamental human right. So the issue is not whether health is a right or not. The most important aspect is that the state and other providers must ensure that they provide good healthcare to those who need it.
National interest is not a preserve of bureaucrats | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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If ever there is a term that is used to repeatedly browbeat non-governmental parties in debates with public officials, it is the whole notion of national interest. This is a concept that is favoured by the bureaucracy. It is a moral pedestal of some sort which is used to portray opponents as being many things but not patriotic. On the other hand, the notion of national interests as deployed by civil servants assumes that everything the state does is in the nation’s interest. That, as we all know
Good institutions matter | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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After reading Daron Acemoglu and James Robinsonâs masterpiece titled Why Nations Fail it is difficult not to appreciate the importance of good institutions. The authors are economists who won the Nobel Prize for their work on how institutions leave nations either prosperous or poor. I was triggered to reflect on the book because it also significantly covers the origins of Botswana’s success at least since independence. And it occurred to me that it is easy to be miss the forest for the trees r
The new Employment Act is an ideologically driven trap for employers | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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âYou donât need to be a neoliberal to see the benefits of the price mechanism, of competition, or of supply-side responses to scarcity.â- Kristian Nimeitz The new employment act, otherwise known as the Labour Relations Act, is very big on protecting employees’ rights and there is nothing wrong with that. In the process, however, it ignores the price mechanism. It puts ideology over economics and wilfully ignores the fact that labour as an input has a price. As a result, it therefore does
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