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  :: Botswana  
 

The FinMark Trust launched FinScope™   as a pilot project in Botswana, in 2003, to begin the process of: understanding usage and need for financial services, measuring effective access to financial services, identifying market segments and assessing opportunities for expansion of financial services.

In 2004, the Trust funded the first full scale survey in Botswana, in partnership with the Botswana Building Society, Botswana Life, Botswana Savings Bank, First National Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. Information was collected in 1 200 interviews with a nationally representative sample of people, aged 18 and over.

The survey tracks the changing landscape of access to financial services across all the main product categories
transaction banking, savings, credit and insurance. It highlights the barriers poor people encounter when they attempt to gain access to financial services and assists policy makers in both the public and private sector to remove or reduce the barriers.
  :: Country Profile
  • Population: 1.8 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Gaborone
  • Area: 600.370 sq km
  • Major languages: English (official), Setswana
  • Major religions: Christianity, indigenous beliefs
  • Monetary unit: 1 Pula = 100 thebe
  • Main exports: Diamonds, copper, nickel, beef
  • GDP - per capita: US$10,900 (2006 est - CIA)
     
  :: Documents
Send an e-mail to finscopeinfo@finscope.co.za 
if you require the full launch presentation on disk.

  :: Licensed Distributing Agents

Eighty20 CC

Contact: Andrew Fulton

Tel:+27 21 421 3019

Fax:+27 21 421 4861
E-mail: andrew@eighty20.co.za  http://www.eighty20.co.za/databases/index.cgi

 

Social Surveys Consulting

Contact: Christiaan Keulder

Tel:+264 61 237 190

Fax:+264 61 237 191
E-mail: c.keulder@surveywarehouse.com.na

 

 

   
   
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