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Botswana: A development-oriented gate-keeping state

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Due to a combination of exceptional economic growth and social development, Botswana has been hailed as an African developmental state. This article rejects the developmental state theory and instead attempts to build an alternative theoretical model. It argues that from the 1930s until the present, Botswana has experienced a state structure characterized by natural resource dependency, lack of economic diversification, a dual society, selective social development and a close connection between the economic and political elite. In the tentative theoretical model presented and discussed here, these are all defining traits of a gate-keeping state. It is hence argued that while Botswana's socio-economic development since independence should in no way be underestimated, it is better understood as the efforts of a development-oriented gate-keeping state rather than a developmental state.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

67-89

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

African Affairs

Volym

111

Issue

442

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Economic History

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0001-9909