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From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone, Botswana

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Onalenna Doo Selolwane

    (University of Botswana)

Abstract

Since Lipton’s (1977) seminal thesis on urban bias in Third World countries, there has been an ongoing debate on the developmental role of the state and cities (Stren and White 1989, Bryceson 1993, Wekwete and Rambanapasi 1994). In recent years, the World Bank (2000a,b) has signalled an increasing appreciation of the progressive role that African cities and accountable governments can play in fostering economic development. Despite the dismal economic record of African countries over the last two decades, it has become an article of global faith that with a change in management style, the unleashing of market forces and the adoption of liberal democratic practices, Africa’s urban settlements can be rehabilitated into loci of livelihood opportunities and economic transformation.

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  • Onalenna Doo Selolwane, 2006. "From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone, Botswana," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 12, pages 278-300, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_12
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    1. Deborah Potts, 2018. "Urban data and definitions in sub-Saharan Africa: Mismatches between the pace of urbanisation and employment and livelihood change," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(5), pages 965-986, April.
    2. Potts, Deborah, 2017. "Conflict and Collisions in Sub-Saharan African Urban Definitions: Interpreting Recent Urbanization Data From Kenya," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 67-78.

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