Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. From National to People’s Poverty in Changing Policy Regimes

   • Onalenna Selolwane

   Pages 1-21

3. Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Botswana

   • Happy Kufigwa Siphambe

   Pages 22-57

4. Wealth and Income Inequalities

   • Imogen Patience Bonolo Mogotsi

   Pages 58-101

5. Welfare, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction

   • Onalenna Selolwane

   Pages 102-138

6. Basic Social Services and Poverty Reduction in Botswana

   • Keitseope Nthomang

   Pages 139-174

7. Organized Interests, Development Strategies and Social Policies

   • Onalenna Selolwane

   Pages 175-209

8. Developmental State Capacity, Poverty Reduction and Institutional Reform

   • Gervase S. Maipose

   Pages 210-239

9. Back Matter

   Pages 241-247

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An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to transform itself from one of the poorest nations of the world to a middle income economy. Contributions review how economic, social and institutional policies interacted to produce successful poverty reduction.

• development
• economy
• poverty
• service

• Department of Sociology, University of Botswana, Botswana

  Onalenna Selolwane

ONALENNA SELOLWANE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Botswana. She holds an MPhil (University of Sussex) and a PhD in Development Studies (University of East Anglia). She is editor of the African Sociological Review and has published in areas of governance, politics, gender and agrarian studies.

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