INTERPRETING THE EXCEPTIONALITY OF BOTSWANA

botswanahas achieved rapid growth with stability since independence in 1966 largely through the supportive interrelations between an open market economy and a system of elite democracy, successfully blending ‘ traditional, and modern elements, and offering a range of fairly free and meaningful political choices. But growth, and the policies of a selectively interventionist state, have produced increasingly deep inequalities of property and incomes, posing problems for the stability of the political economy in future. © 1992, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.