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Title: | The State, globalization and the survival of the urban informal sector in Botswana: the challenge of public policy |
Authors: | Obasi, Isaac N. Motshegwa, Baakile Mfundisi, A. |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 55-79 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
Subjects: | informal sector globalization government policy urban economy Economics, Commerce Informal sector (Economics) Botswana--Economic policy Globalization--Economic aspects urbanization |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24483996 |
Abstract: | Botswana can be seen as an exception to the thesis on the flourishing of the informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa (J. Xaba et al., 2002). In Botswana, the structure of the urban set-up and its planning and environmental laws, as well as the dominance of multinational supermarkets, have restricted the opportunities found in other countries, especially outside the Southern African region. Although Botswana is by far better economically situated than many other African countries where the informal sector is flourishing, its high rate of unemployment (relative to its prosperity) is traceable to the absence of opportunities that promote the flourishing culture of informal economy. The authors draw out the specific inhibitory conditions in Botswana that have to do with the forces of globalization as a public policy challenge. The State needs to address the issue of the relationship between the informal sector and informal sector workers on the one hand, and the State and the formal sector on the other. App., bibliogr., ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |