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. …

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to …, social and institutional policies interacted to produce successful poverty reduction …