contract - to those of its neighbours in Southern Africa. It is the result of the specific character of poverty in Botswana and …Botswana's welfare state is both a parsimonious laggard in comparison with some other middle-income countries in Africa … the enduring, but not unchallenged, political dominance of the conservatively paternalist Botswana Democratic Party. …

expansion of cash transfer programmes in Kenya -- The scope and limits of Ghana's 'Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty … written policy: provision of social assistance in Botswana -- Conclusion: reluctant domestic and enthusiastic international …

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to …, social and institutional policies interacted to produce successful poverty reduction …

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect, to …, social and institutional policies interacted to produce successful poverty reduction. …

Regimes -- 2 Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Botswana -- 3 Wealth and Income Inequalities -- 4 Welfare, Social … Protection and Poverty Reduction -- 5 Basic Social Services and Poverty Reduction in Botswana -- 6 Organized Interests … -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 From National to People's Poverty in Changing Policy …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … both universal and targeted, anti-poverty, outcomes. Different versions of simple static and purely arithmetic micro …

Children of single mothers face higher rates of poverty than children in two-parent households in practically every … poverty and, as a result, little consensus on the best way to address poverty among these children. Explanations include both … market activity affect child poverty generally in the expected way. Taking advantage of the longitudinal data at the country …