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Article: Botswana's progress.(A shining example)(Letter to the editor)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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I was very impressed by your article on Botswana ('How Botswana avoided the resource curse,' African Business, February 2009 issue). The writer, Hippolyte Fofack, was refreshingly honest. The fact is that income growth in Botswana has still not defeated the country's poverty but Botswana nevertheless provides a shining example of what a country, possessing natural resources and a will to use them constructively, can achieve.
Natural resources on our continent, so often described as an 'African curse' due to the conflict, corruption and commodity dependence they create, tend to breed a culture of greed that requires those that seek to exploit them to be ...