Abstract:
The study determines the impact of infrastructure on economic growth in Botswana.
The study employs an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) estimation technique
to determine how infrastructure affects economic growth in Botswana. The empirical
results show that healthcare infrastructure has a positive and significant impact on
economic growth in Botswana in the long run. The results further reveal that electric
power consumption has a positive and significant effect in influencing economic
growth in the short run. The results imply that in order to achieve higher economic
growth, policymakers should consider accelerating improvement of healthcare
infrastructure.
