An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to …

written policy: provision of social assistance in Botswana -- Conclusion: reluctant domestic and enthusiastic international …

Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and … the enduring, but not unchallenged, political dominance of the conservatively paternalist Botswana Democratic Party. …