Hidden Rules of Development
Stephen BrienRe-reading the development record through its anomalies
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What Could a Botswana Manufacturer Lose, Once the State Backed It?
In June 1974, a company called Air Cushion Vehicles Botswana (Pty) Ltd received an industrial licence and protection. From that day, for four years, no one else in Botswana could make air-cushion vehicles, hovercraft, “of all types”. The pr...
Who Was Supposed to Turn Botswana’s Foundry Proposal Into a Factory?
One of a set of posts on Botswana. The previous post followed the creation of that machinery: search became a standing government job and projects acquired increasingly disciplined tests, without the cumulative yield of the search becoming...
Botswana Learned How to Test an Industrial Project. Could It Learn Where to Look Next?
One of a set of posts on Botswana, in a longer series on why sustained transformation, a poor economy becoming broad-based and self-sustaining, is rare. The previous post drew the boundary around production: state institutions, infrastructu...
What Botswana Put Itself on the Hook For
One of a set of posts on Botswana, part of a longer series on why sustained transformation, a poor economy becoming broad-based and self-sustaining, is rare. The previous post asked who was expected to produce, and found production assigned...
Botswana’s Founders Inherited More Than They Chose
One of a set of posts on Botswana, part of a longer series on why sustained transformation, a poor economy becoming broad-based and self-sustaining, is rare. The previous post showed that Botswana’s economy grew dramatically but did not tra...
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I’ve worked across government, development and strategy in the UK, Middle East and Africa, and led the Legatum Prosperity Index. I’m a Visiting Senior Fellow at Artha Global & Future Africa, and Chair of the UK Social Security Advisory Committee.
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