In addition, and coincidentally, the Bank, in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund and other development partners, recently concluded a workshop in Kasane on “fostering diversification to escape the middle-income trap” for Botswana.
Furthermore, the "textual analysis" method is increasingly applied in research, as large amounts of "unstructured" information on businesses and the economy are available electronically on the internet. In order to operationalise textual data for econometric analysis, machine learning algorithms can be helpful. Learning methods can be applied to classify textual documents into different categories which can then be used to draw statistical inferences.