. Rapid economic development has boosted living standards and reduced poverty but poverty remains high. There is a need to …

poverty of household heads in this village and the values of several socio-economic variables. The socio-economic variables … enables a life cycle of the likely incidence of poverty of household heads to be derived. Some of our results differ from … with the incidence of poverty, neither is involvement or otherwise in wage employment, and a positive (but statistically …

Poverty and social deprivation in Botswana are rising in rural areas while they are declining in urban towns and … villages. Revenue from diamond mining is thought to have made a significant contribution to reducing poverty levels in cities … and urban villages. However, the benefits from diamond revenue are perceived to have not reversed trends in rural poverty …