Poverty Reduction And Changing Policy Regimes In Botswana

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 Peoples 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.