IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/jintdv/v26y2014i2p155-176.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cattle, Diamonds And Institutions: Main Drivers Of Botswana'S Economic Development, 1850 To Present

Author

Listed:
  • Ellen Hillbom

Abstract

This study investigates the role of political as well as economic institutions, factor endowments and geography as main drivers of change in Botswana's long‐term economic development, from 1850 to the present. The claim that we need to embrace multi‐causal explanations giving equal explanatory value to all mentioned potential drivers is made. Further, in order not to compress history, we should give equal attention to the pre‐colonial, colonial and post‐independence eras. The study leads by example and provides a thorough analysis that enriches our understanding of the country's past and present. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Ellen Hillbom, 2014. "Cattle, Diamonds And Institutions: Main Drivers Of Botswana'S Economic Development, 1850 To Present," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(2), pages 155-176, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:155-176
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cristián Ducoing & José Peres-Cajías & Marc Badia-Miró & Ann-Kristin Bergquist & Carlos Contreras & Kristin Ranestad & Sara Torregrosa, 2018. "Natural Resources Curse in the Long Run? Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the Nordic Countries’ Mirror," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-25, March.
    2. Ellen Hillbom & Jutta Bolt, 2015. "Changing Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: The Case of Botswana 1921-2010," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-028, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Ellen Hillbom & Jutta Bolt, 2015. "Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1921-2010," WIDER Working Paper Series 028, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:26:y:2014:i:2:p:155-176. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5102/home .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.