that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …, notably infrastructure and enterprise finance, have yet to be resolved. Agricultural productivity remains low. And without new …

living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …