Diamonds or development? A structural assessment of Botswana's forty years of success
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4250461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Hillbom (0000-0002-0820-2729, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-214 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x08003194 |
| OpenAlex | W2153631412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 46 |
Due to its four decades of high long-term economic growth and democratic system, Botswana has been depicted as an exceptional success story in a region full of economic and political failures. In this article, a structural analysis is applied, and it is argued that Botswana's success should be understood as one of pre-modern growth without development. It is claimed that although the country may be a growth miracle, it has not yet experienced 'modern economic growth', characterised by structural change in patterns of production as well as in social and political institutions. Such analysis also offers an explanation for the duality of Botswana's economy and society, since pre-modern growth, as opposed to development, allows for significant poverty rates and extremely unequal resource and income distribution to prevail in the midst of plenty
Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic miracle · Economic system · Economics · Income distribution · Inequality · Market economy · Miracle · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Resource (disambiguation) · Social change · Structural adjustment · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · International Development and Aid · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development
Natural Resources and Development
Questioning the Pro‐Poor Agenda
Will Uganda succumb to the resource curse? Critical reflections
From diamonds to coal? Critical reflections on Botswana’s economic future
African Growth Recurring
Potential for Diversification? The Role of the Formal Sector in Bechuanaland Protectorate's Economy, 1900–65
Rich and poor
Social policy development and global financial crisis in the open economies of Botswana and Mauritius
Developmental’ policies and rent
Autocracy, insecurity and pre-modernity in Botswana
Adaptive environmental governance of changing social-ecological systems
Gender quotas, democracy, and women's representation in Africa
Diamonds aren’t forever
Governance and policy responses to corruption
The conflict between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor, Ian Khama, in Botswana
Democracy and development in Botswana
Mineral wealth and limited redistribution
Botswana at 50
An extractive developmental state in Southern Africa? The cases of Zambia and Zimbabwe
Human–nature relationships
Interests over institutions
Welfare Policy Expansion in Botswana and Mauritius
Economic Miracles and Their Hypes
The British and the transfer of power in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
Toward anticipatory adaptation
Fall from grace or back down to earth? Conservation and political conflict in Africa's "miracle" state
Long-term trends in economic inequality
Electoral competition, factionalism, and persistent party dominance in Botswana
Development strategies reconsidered
An African miracle
Dividing the commons
Abstain or Die
Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
Why poor people stay poor
No Condition Is Permanent
The theory of the optimising peasant 1
Economic Growth and Income Inequality
Chapter 4. An African Success Story
World development report 2006
Development as Freedom
Does Mother Nature Corrupt
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Income distribution, development and foreign trade
Water Resource Management in Botswana
The Political Foundations of Development
Gender and HIV/Aids in Botswana
Managing commodity booms in Botswana
The big push, natural resource booms and growth
Beyond the Rhetoric of Empowerment
Booming Sector and De-Industrialisation in a Small Open Economy
Policy Choice and Development Performance in Botswana
State Formation and Governance in Botswana
The Political Economy of Botswana
Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economics
Corruption and Mismanagement in Botswana
Relentless colonialism
A Little God
At the Ends of the Ladder
Monarch of All I Survey
Botswana
Poverty and Mass Unemployment in Mineralrich Botswana
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
Industrial Strategy and the African State
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |