{"id":403425,"date":"2026-03-25T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/403425\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:27:23","slug":"pension-funds-back-economic-shift-mmegi-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/403425\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension funds back economic shift :: Mmegi Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s pension funds, valued at over P166 billion, have been eyed by policymakers as a possible driver of economic growth if channelled to domestic assets to support the country&#8217;s economic plans. Recently, during the Botswana Pensions Society (BPS) Annual Congress, policymakers reiterated this notion, highlighting the imperative role pension funds can play in unlocking economic diversification.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering remarks on behalf of the Vice President and Minister of Finance, Permanent Secretary Gape Kaboyakgosi said Botswana\u2019s economic model is at a turning point. Whilst the diamond-led growth model has delivered stability for decades, he said diversification has slowed, with unemployment and inequality rising, making it urgent for the country&#8217;s diversification drive to find alternative financing models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country&#8217;s pension funds, valued at over P166 billion, have been eyed by policymakers as a possible driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[21995,79,5781,18,25817,19,17,2987,234,235,33919],"class_list":["post-403425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-back","tag-business","tag-economic","tag-eire","tag-funds","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-shift"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116290993821022124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}