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GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana’s central bank expects inflation to rise above 3% in the second quarter for mainly transitory reasons, and will keep monetary policy accommodative, it said on Thursday.
Annual inflation - running at 2.3% last month - was last within the bank’s 3%-6% target range in September 2019.
It dropped below 1% last year as the COVID-19 pandemic depressed economic activity.
Finance Minister Thapelo Matsheka hiked VAT, increased the fuel levy and introduced a new tax on sugary drinks in a budget speech on Feb. 1, which the central bank expects to drive prices higher.
Despite that prospect, central bank officials said on Thursday that they were not planning to tighten monetary policy, after 100 basis points of rate cuts last year to the current rate of 3.75%. ....

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