Word: botswana
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...rates of GDP are higher in nondemocratic countries than in democratic ones." There is no confirmation of this oft-repeated belief in extensive empirical studies. Sure, South Korea might have grown fast enough before the re-establishment of democracy, but not so the less democratic North Korea. And democratic Botswana certainly grew much faster than authoritarian Ethiopia or Ghana...
That morning two years ago in Botswana's stunning Chobe reserve, I wished every child in the world could share these magnificent sights. And I worried that in a few generations' time, they could be lost even to the children of Africa...
...DeVore was deep in the Kalahari desert, performing the first professional study of the !Kung San people (Bushmen) of Botswana, who are known in the West for their click-full language...
...said the diagnosed AIDS rate among pregnant women in Botswana has increased from five percent to 40 percent in just two years...
Diamonds may be forever, but for producers in Africa they can be a curse or a blessing. They have taken at least one country, Botswana, from rags to riches. In terms of value, half the world's diamonds come from South Africa, Botswana or Namibia. The control of the diamond fields in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo has always been at the heart of dark and bloody civil wars in those nations as well. But Angola is a case unto itself, a land where a hijacked diamond industry continues to feed the fires of misery even...