Botswana is not a name that appears often in the Western media. The country has been keeping a low profile, but it’s doing its homework. Actually, an acquaintance who visited Gaborone recently described its residential areas as being similar to Wisteria Lane in Desperate Housewives. The city is clean and orderly, the stores close early, and people are friendly and polite. So how did Botswana transform itself from the Least Developed Country (LDC) it was at the time of its independence in 1966 into an upper middle-income country that is internationally recognized as being the fastest growing and the least corrupt in Africa? How did Botswana sustain economic growth of 9% a year, on average, between 1966 and 2007?
Tuesday 18 October 2011
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