TY  - BOOK
AU  - Throup,David W.
ED  - Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS.
TI  - Botswana: assessing risks to stability 
SN  - 9780892066353
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Center for Strategic and International Studies
KW  - Botwsana
KW  - economic conditions
KW  - social conditions
KW  - Botswana
KW  - internal politics
KW  - government
KW  - risk assessment
KW  - forecasting
N1  - At head of title: A report of the CSIS Africa Program; June 2011; Title from PDF title screen (viewed on July 15, 2011); Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Botswana's economy remains highly dependent on diamond revenues, and repeated efforts to create alternative types of economic growth and job creation have failed. In the short term, Botswana's main vulnerability is its dependence on regional dynamics. As a landlocked and agriculturally unproductive country, Botswana is economically dependent on South Africa for its critical needs such as food, petroleum, and electricity. Thus, an economic or political crisis in South Africa would have significant subsequent effects in Botswana. Botswana's ruling political party is in long-term decline. Although the potential for social upheaval is minimal, a change in the political balance of power is possible during the next decade
UR  - http://csis.org/files/publication/110623_Throup_Botswana_web.pdf
ER  -