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Issues of economic growth and poverty reduction
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, www.thuto.org/pula/html/, 2003)
Poverty is a complex problem and reducing it depends upon many interconnected factors. It cannot be attributed to one main cause. Its reduction is possible only by achieving economic growth. An indirect causal connection ...
Dimensions and measures to reduce poverty in Botswana
(University of Botswana, http://ub.bw, 2003)
This paper brings out the various theoretical measurements of poverty and looks at
Botswana's performance in terms of these measures. In terms of income poverty,
Botswana's poverty has been declining over time and ...
Understanding unemployment in Botswana
(John Wiley, www.wiley.com, 2003)
The impressive performance that Botswana has achieved since gaining independence in 1966 is one of the few success stories of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. For the period 1965-1990, growth in per capita ...
Technology and poverty eradication: pre-conditions for effectiveness
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2003)
New technology has been identified as one way to alleviate poverty in developing nations. This is because it makes available cheaper drugs, cheaper inputs such as fertilizers and new seed varieties that are needed by the ...
Poverty reduction through strengthening small and medium enterprises
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2003)
Although Botswana is clearly one of the richest countries with one of the most vibrant
economies in Africa, available statistical evidence suggests that the problem of poverty has recently caused a lot of concern in the ...
Making technologies work for resource-poor farmers
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2003)
The need for productivity increases in the agricultural sector in Botswana in order to help improve farm incomes, especially incomes of resource-poor farmers, has been an important concern in the poverty alleviation effort ...