Botswana; why such fast growth?

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jul 29 16:42:26 PDT 2002


Paul Romer wrote a paper about Mauritius: (a) educate your citizens, (b) make a huge play for textile and other light manufacturing entrepreneurs from Hong Kong who are fearful of the PRC to move their operations to Mauritius.

Not clear how sustainable light-industrials-fearing-Communists-led industrialization is. Very clear that this is a development strategy that can only be successful once...

Brad DeLong



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