Over time, there has been a significant rise in vocational education
and technical training in Botswana. This article shows that there is a positive
and significant relationship between economic growth and vocational education
and technical training in the country. However, job creation in the formal sector
is limited, given the size of the domestic market. It is necessary that the expansion of vocational and technical training should be accompanied with
appreciable growth in employment in the formal sector. Botswana should
produce for the regional market in Southern Africa in order to circumvent the smallness of the domestic market. Outward-looking, export production can
loosen the most binding constraints to economic growth with structural change in the country.