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- Title
Mineral-based Growth and Development-generated Socioeconomic Problems in Botswana: Rural Inequality, Water Scarcity, Food Insecurity, and Foreign Dependence Challenge New Governing Class.
- Authors
Curry Jr., Robert L.
- Abstract
Botswana's record of economic growth and political stability stands in sharp contrast to the economic stagnation and political turmoil endemic to Africa. Its progress was based on its fortuitous endowment of mineral wealth, and sound macroeconomic management. In effect, diamond, copper, nickel and coal mining has transformed Botswana from a least- developed, rural, agriculture-based economy into one of Africa's fastest growing, non-fuel mineral exporting countries. The Government has forged fiscal linkages between the companies operating in the mining sector and its public revenue collections. However, no such strong linkages have been established to the agricultural sector-particularly, to remote, rural, traditional farming areas where most of the country's people live. The growth strategy has produced underdevelopment and economic stagnation in rural agriculture, as well as increasing economic dependency on the Republic of South Africa.
- Subjects
BOTSWANA; ECONOMIC development; BOTSWANAN economy; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SOCIOECONOMICS; MINERAL industries
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1985, Vol 44, Issue 3, p319
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1985.tb02351.x