At the Ends of the Ladder: Radical Inequalities in Botswana
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 31 (2) , 203-230
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00011903
Abstract
Botswana ranks very high in sub-Saharan Africa in income per capita, and in such indicators of human development as public expenditure on health and education. Nevertheless, inequalities of wealth and income are particularly severe, in both international and domestic comparisons. Although wealth and poverty are mediated and expressed in complex ways, the disparities between the very rich and the very poor are established, structured, and growing.Keywords
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