Botswana A Modern Economic History
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Author |
: Ellen Hillbom |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2019-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3030103234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783030103231 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Botswana – A Modern Economic History by : Ellen Hillbom
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, covering the period from the mid-19th century, when the Tswana groups settled, to the present day. Understanding the interaction over time between geography and factor endowments on the one hand, and the development of economic and political institutions on the other, offers principle lessons from Botswana’s experience to other natural resource rich developing countries.
Author |
: Jannis Mossmann |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 25 |
Release |
: 2009-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783640386673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3640386671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Botswana in the Modern World-System by : Jannis Mossmann
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 78, Stellenbosch Universitiy, course: Comparative Political Economy, language: English, abstract: Botswana is described as the "African miracle" (Samatar, 1999), as an "exception" (Good, 1992), or as "a rare example of an African state that used its bonanza of mineral riches wisely" (Meredith, 2006:285). However, critique verbalized by Taylor (2003) and Good (1992) has shown that Botswana's economic history is not a pure success story; even it illustrates a positive example of African development compared to almost all the other African countries. To analyze Botswana's economic history I will date back to the beginning of the 1900s. At this time, Botswana's eight main chiefdoms dominated regional African trade. The indigenous elite welcomed trade with European settlers who arrived in this period. While Botswana's neighbor countries experienced the process of incorporation into the modern world-economy already, Botswana started to shift into the external arena of the global economy. This essay will show how Botswana is and has incorporated into the modern worldeconomy referred to Immanuel Wallerstein's modern world-system theory. I will start with an overview about Botswana's actual trade situation to be able to locate the country within the global division of labor. Afterwards the paper analyses the history of Botswana's shift into the external arena of the modern world-system followed by its incorporation. Furthermore, I will illustrate Botswana's economic development since the incorporation. A second part of Botswana's history deals with the economy-based class structure and how it shaped the political history since Botswana achieved political independence in 1966. I will argue that the class structure, as already indicated, has to be understood in the context of pre-colonial and colonial development. After all, I will point out what important contemporary political-
Author |
: Louis A. Picard |
Publisher |
: University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015011019323 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evolution of Modern Botswana by : Louis A. Picard
Economic and social development, political development, Botswana - history, independence, local governments, land tenure, water supply, livestock, rural development, political system, political partys, foreign policy, Africa south of Sahara, regional cooperation trends. References, statistical tables.
Author |
: Paul T. Zeleza |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:180653377 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Modern Economic History of Africa by : Paul T. Zeleza
Author |
: Ellen Hillbom |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2018-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319731445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319731440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Botswana – A Modern Economic History by : Ellen Hillbom
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, covering the period from the mid-19th century, when the Tswana groups settled, to the present day. Understanding the interaction over time between geography and factor endowments on the one hand, and the development of economic and political institutions on the other, offers principle lessons from Botswana’s experience to other natural resource rich developing countries.
Author |
: Emmanuel Akyeampong |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 541 |
Release |
: 2014-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107041158 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107041155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
Author |
: Ørnulf Gulbrandsen |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857452979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857452975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The State and the Social by : Ørnulf Gulbrandsen
The development of Tswana 'merafe' (kingdoms) and the arrival of Christianity and colonialism -- Tswana consolidation within the colonial State: development of a postcolonial State embryo -- Cattle, diamonds and the "grand coalition"--The State and indigenous authority structures : ambiguities of co-optation and confrontation -- Tswana domination, minority protests and the discourse of development -- Anti-politics and questions of democracy and domination -- Governmentalization of the State: on State interventions in the population -- Escalating inequality: popular reactions to political leaders.
Author |
: Knut Borchardt |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 1991-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521368588 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521368582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy by : Knut Borchardt
This collection of essays covers themes central to German economic history while considering their interaction with other historical phenomena. Among the essays Borchardt considers Germany's late start as an industrial nation, the West-East developmental gradient, key patterns of long-term economic development, and unusual changes in the phenomena of business cycles. The collection also contains the essays which have become the subject of so-called 'Borchardt controversies', in which hypotheses are presented on the economic causes of the collapse of the parliamentary regime by 1929-30, at the very end of the 'crisis before the crisis'. He also explains why there were no alternatives to the economic policies of the slump, and in particular why there was no 'miracle weapon' against Hitler's seizure of power. These are among the most original and stimulating contributions of recent years to the economic history of modern Germany and will be of interest to anyone who ponders deeply the meaning of history.
Author |
: Debin Ma |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 867 |
Release |
: 2022-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108425537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108425534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Economic History of China by : Debin Ma
A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
Author |
: Roger E. Backhouse |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 191111669X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781911116691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Economics by : Roger E. Backhouse
Roger E. Backhouse and Keith Tribe present a broad introduction to the history of economic thought based upon courses they have taught for many years. Its main purpose is to provide an overview for students and teachers who have not had the opportunity of taking a course in the subject. The book is presented as a series of twenty-four lectures. Each lecture presents an outline of aims, a select bibliography, a chronology, an overview of between 3,000 and 4,000 words, and questions for further study or reflection. Contemporary understanding of economic principles sheds little light on the manner in which past thinkers thought, so the student is provided with the much-needed context behind the development of ideas as well as being guided through the original writings of economists such as Smith, Jevons, Marshall, Robbins, Keynes, and others. The emphasis is on the broad developing stream of economic argument from the seventeenth century to the present, seeking to emphasize a diversity that is sometimes suppressed in more conventional textbooks, which tend to organize their histories into sequences of schools of thought. With many years of experience teaching economic thought, the authors have honed their presentation to the needs of those with no previous background in the subject, without sacrificing analysis or rigor. The book will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers alike.