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Relentless Colonialism: the case of the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP) and the Basarwa in Botswana
(Cambridge University Press, http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=MOA, 2004-08)
Colonial processes continue to dominate many Indigenous peoples development programmes in countries around the world. This paper examines some of the underlying factors that contribute to continued failure in the implementation ...
Productivity among nurses and midwives in Botswana
(CODESRIA, http://www.codesria.org, 2002)
In spite of the rapid economic growth, which made Botswana the envy of sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s and 1990s, total factor productivity either stagnated or declined over the same period (Botswana National Productivity ...
Botswana: an African miracle or a case of mistaken identity?
(Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2003)
About a decade ago, the left learning Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) published an article by Hoogvelt et al 1992)entitled: ‘The World Bank and Africa: A Case of Mistaken Identity.’ The article criticized the ...
Privatisation in Botswana: the demise of a developmental state?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. www.wiley.com, 2008)
This article argues that efforts by the Government of Botswana to embark on privatisation of some parastatals as well as contracting out the provision of certain services with the main intention of enhancing productivity ...
Job satisfaction among nurses in Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, www.taylorandfrancis.com, 2000)
In this paper the authors examines the extent of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in a
national sample of 325 nurses working in hospitals, clinics and health posts in Botswana. The analyses explored the effects of ...
The business sector
(Made Plain Commucation, 2008)
This chapter reviews Botswana's integrity mechanisms within the business sector. It examines the role of the state owned businesses, by far the majority in Botswana,as well as the emerging privately owned business sector. ...
Searching for appropriateness in Social Work education in Botswana:The process of developing a Master in Social Work (MSW) programme in a 'developing’ country
(Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2006)
Developing a tertiary academic programme in Botswana is not only an intellectual
activity but also an institutional process that must be balanced to satisfy different
stakeholders and contending claims. This paper focuses ...
Gender differences in satisfaction with the type of work University employees do: evidence from the University of Botswana
(Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/, 2009)
The study investigated the extent to which male and female employees of a University differ in various attributes and attitudes and in the level of satisfaction with the type of work they do, and further established factors ...
HIV/AIDS and home based care in Botswana: panacea or perfidy?
(Taylor & Francis, taylorandfrancis.com/, 2004)
The extent of the AIDS pandemic in Africa (and specifically in Botswana), and the lack of institutional frameworks to address concomitant issues, have necessitated the adoption of home based care for sufferers as
national ...
The politics of poverty in Botswana
(Botswana Society, www.botsoc.org.bw, 2003)
For many years, Botswana has achieved both a fast growing economy and worsening inequalities.
'Botswana's annual growth in real GDP had averaged 10.9 percent in the period 1981-90, faster even than the east Asian Tigers ...