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

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …