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Article: Botswana is a role model for development.
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- Market Africa Mid-East
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that this year the per capita income for Botswana will be US$10,400. A decade ago, this number was US$6,156, an impressive achievement--especially for a country that a new book about Botswana says has the odds against it, both by being an African country, and also by having a small population.
The book is titled, Why Botswana Prospered and is published by McGill-Queen's University Press. It was available in bookstores starting on July 30, 2005.
The short answer to the question posed by the book's title is that sound government policies are responsible for Botswana's economic achievements, among which, as the ...