The major objective of this article is to indicate how Botswana may achieve the industrial development envisaged in the economic linkage model and thereby generate sustainable employment that would lead to poverty reduction in the country. The findings of the study are that poverty reduction through industrial-based economic growth that leads to employment creation is the most effective way of dealing with poverty. This conclusion is supported by empirical evidence on poverty reduction from China, Indonesia and Singapore. For Botswana, evidence suggests that the public sector is now saturated and can no longer be a major source of employment. Therefore, the policy shift to an industrial-based economic growth for employment creation and poverty reduction under the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA) is a step in the right direction.
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