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  title info:
    title: Botswana - A Modern Economic History
    sub title: An African Diamond in the Rough
  name:
    name part: Hillbom, Ellen.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Bolt, Jutta.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 235 p. 22 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Many people have tried to draw lessons from Botswana's apparent economic success, and linked it to unique features of the country's history. In this book, Bolt and Hillbom have used detailed historical research to tell the story of that success, and suggest that it is perhaps not so unique after all. At the same time, they have shown how detailed case studies can contribute to a more nuanced and complete understanding of African economic development since the nineteenth century." - Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK "With their construction of long-term income inequality trends Hillbom and Bolt provide new and interesting evidence demonstrating that the gap between rich and poor, so evident in Botswana today, first began to show up in the 1940s." - Neil Parsons, University of Botswana Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its spectacular long-run economic performance and impressive social development, it has been termed both an economic success story and a developmental state. While there is uniqueness in the Botswana experience, several aspects of the country's opportunities and challenges are of a more general nature. Throughout its history, Botswana has been both blessed and hindered by its natural resource abundance and dependency, which have influenced growth periods, opportunities for economic diversification, strategies for sustainable economic and social development, and the distribution of incomes and opportunities. Through a political economy framework, Hillbom and Bolt provide an updated understanding of an African success story. Ellen Hillbom is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden. Jutta Bolt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden and affiliated with the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. .
  table of contents: Part I -- Chapter 1: An African Diamond in the Rough -- Chapter 2: Pre-Colonial Economy and Society, c. 1850-1930 -- Part II -- Chapter 3: Colonial Policies and the Cattle Economy, c. 1930-1975 -- Part III -- Chapter 4: Growth, Incomes and Development, c. 1940-Present -- Chapter 5: Trapped by Diamonds, c. 1975-Present -- Chapter 6: Inequality of Incomes and Opportunity, c. 1920-Present -- Part IV -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
  note: by Ellen Hillbom, Jutta Bolt.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Africa-History
  subject:
    topic: Natural resources
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: International Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: African History
  subject:
    topic: Natural Resource and Energy Economics
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economy-wide Country Studies
  classification: HC
  classification: 330.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
  identifier: 9783319731445
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73144-5
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    record creation date: 180314
    record change date: 20191220130052.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-73144-5