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Title Poverty reduction and changing policy regimes in Botswana / edited by Onalenna Selolwane
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Series Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction
Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction
Contents From national to people's poverty in changing policy regimes / Onalenna Selolwane -- Development strategies and poverty reduction in Botswana / Happy Kufigwa Siphambe -- Wealth and income inequalities / Imogen Patience Bonolo Mogotsi -- Welfare, social protection and poverty reduction / Onalenna Selolwane -- Basic social services and poverty reduction in Botswana / Keitseope Nthomang -- Organized interests, development strategies and social policies / Onalenna Selolwane -- Developmental state capacity, poverty reduction and institutional reform / Gervase S. Maipose
Summary This book examines how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency, colonial neglect and a harsh physical environment to transform itself from one of the poorest nations of the world to a middle income economy with significant reductions in people's poverty. It reviews the interactions of economic, social and institutional policies and how these reinforced one another to produce the poverty outcomes that they did from the initial socio-economic conditions. In particular it illustrates how the chosen development strategies consistently tied social and economic policies to achieve, on the one hand, re-distribution, protection and reproduction and, on the other, investment in production and human capabilities. The substantive areas covered include trends in economic development strategies and outcome; social policies and strategies and their impact on poverty and productive capacity; income and wealth distribution; the role of organized interest groups in policy development; and institutional development, state capacity and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Political economy -- Botswana.
Development economics & emerging economies -- Botswana.
Macroeconomics -- Botswana.
Health economics -- Botswana.
Poverty & unemployment -- Botswana.
Economics.
Economic history
Economic policy
SUBJECT Botswana -- Economic policy
Botswana -- Economic conditions -- 1966- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016037
Subject Botswana
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Selolwane, Onalenna, 1955- editor.
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