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Why Botswana Prospered

J. Clark Leith · McGill-Queen's University Press · 2005

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Type: Book
Author: J. Clark Leith
Identifier: DOI 10.1515/9780773572416
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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TheoryAcemoglu, Johnson and Robinson attribute Botswana's growth to institutions of private property and constraints on political elites, rooted in pre-colonial institutions, light colonial rule and the interests of a cattle-owning elite, rather than to diamonds alone.