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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Botswana, Africa

    Botswana represents one of the few development success stories in Sub-Saharan Africa. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth averaged almost 9 percent between 1960 and 2005, far above the Sub-Saharan Africa average. Real GDP per capita grew even faster, averaging more than 10 percent a year -- the most rapid economic growth of any country in the world. The crucial question is: Why has Botswana grown the way it has done, and what lessons does it offer?

  2. Library Resource

    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Eswatini

    Unplanned and unregulated urban
    development is not unique to Swaziland, but addressing the
    issue through direct consultations with beneficiaries is an
    important improvement toward resolving this persistent
    problem. The Swaziland Urban Development Project includes
    standard infrastructure work, such as increasing urban
    roads, rehabilitating and expanding water and sewage
    services, and developing a solid waste facility However, in

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Lesotho

    The report looks at Lesotho, a
    predominantly mountainous, land-locked, poor country with a
    small population, limited natural resources, and a very
    fragile ecology. It has low gross national income, and a
    significant poverty level. To ameliorate this condition, the
    government has embarked on a pro-poor, growth strategy that
    includes public, and private investment in infrastructure.
    It explores the level of private participation at this phase

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Namibia

    Namibia is a large country in Southern
    Africa that borders the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola
    to the north and South Africa to the south. With a surface
    area of 824,290 square kilometers, it is similar in size to
    Mozambique and about half the size of the U.S. state of
    Alaska. Namibia has a small population of approximately 2.1
    million people. It is also one of the least densely
    populated countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an average

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Africa, South Africa, Brazil, China, India, Poland

    This book, Financing cities, emphasized
    case studies on different topics to look at the interactions
    of a range of variables and factors and to see how they fit
    together. Rather than require each case to follow the same
    format, the authors have structured their papers around the
    issues that matter most from their perspective in addressing
    the topic in hand. The first part of this book presents case
    studies describing the framework established at the national

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Lesotho

    Lesotho began a structural economic
    transformation in the early 1990s. The transformation has
    brought higher, more secure incomes to households while the
    government succeeded in dramatically improving access to
    services such as education, health, water, and
    transportation. Yet today, Lesotho faces a number of serious
    development challenges, including a high rate of chronic
    poverty, entrenched income inequality, and most troubling

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Lesotho

    The Kingdom of Lesotho is a land-locked
    nation located in the Drakensberg mountain range in Southern
    Africa. The country has a total area of 30355 km² and in
    2009 had an estimated population of nearly 2.1 million, with
    nominal per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$ 1080
    (in 2010). About 75 percent live in rural areas, often in
    scattered mountain villages, while most of the urban
    population lives in and around the capital Maseru and the

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2012
    Africa, South Africa

    Informal settlements are a permanent
    feature of South Africa's cities. Estimates from the
    General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa show
    that more than 26 percent of all households in the
    country's six metropolitan areas live in informal
    dwellings. The government's policy efforts have focused
    on provision of subsidized housing, first introduced as part
    of the Reconstruction and Development Program. Through the

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    South Africa

    Countries everywhere are divided into
    two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic
    models of development predict faster growth in the urban
    sector, causing rapid migration from rural areas to cities,
    lifting average incomes in both places. The process
    continues until the marginal productivity of labor is
    equalized across the two realms. The pattern of rising
    urbanization accompanying economic growth has become one of

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