Mr Chairman, with this background, it is now time that I focus on the central point of my remarks - that is, the role of the central bank, in this case the Bank of Botswana, in the achievement of Botswana’s economic transformation.
2  1  For a comparison between Japan’s experience after the burst of the bubble and the U.S. and European experience in the recent financial crisis, see Shirakawa, Masaaki, “Uniqueness or Similarity?