Sustainable development and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Botswana
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| adam_text | Sustainable
Development and
Poverty Alleviation in
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Case of Botswana
Charles Perrings
Professor of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management
University of York
Foreword by Iftikhar Ahmed
A study prepared for the International Labour Office
Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Figures x
List of Abbreviations xi
Foreword by Jftikhar Ahmed xii
1 Introduction 1
1 1 The problem of poverty and resource degradation 1
1 2 Poverty and incentives 4
1 3 The structure of the study 7
2 Secular Trends and Environmental Degradation in
Sub-Saharan Africa 14
2 1 Climate change 14
211 Climate change and ecosystem resilience 16
212 Climate change and agriculture in
Sub-Saharan Africa 17
2 2 Population growth 18
221 Population growth and resource utilization 18
222 Population stability and ecosystem resilience 20
2 3 Property rights 23
231 Traditional property rights 24
232 The evolution of property rights in
Sub-Saharan Africa 25
233 Security of tenure and resource degradation 26
3 Environmental Management in Sub-Saharan Africa 29
3 1 Risk management and innovation in the rural
economy 29
311 The management of market risks 30
312 Water risks in dryland environments 32
3 2 Price incentives 34
321 Price liberalization 36
322 Incentive effects 37
323 The problem of non-traded resources 39
vi Contents
3 3 Income and asset distribution 40
331 Rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa 41
332 Poverty and the rate of discount 42
4 Botswana: Economy and Environment 44
4 1 Structure and trends 46
411 Output 46
412 Employment 48
4 2 The rural economy 51
421 The livestock sector 53
422 Arable agriculture 58
423 Off-farm economic activity 64
4 3 Concluding remarks 69
5 Economic Policy and Economic Incentives 70
5 1 The livestock sector 72
511 Property rights 72
512 Pricing structures 75
513 Subsidies and taxes 77
5 2 The arable sector 79
521 The pricing structure 79
522 Taxes and subsidies 81
5 3 Other incentive effects of policy 84
531 Agricultural credit 84
532 Exchange rates 87
6 Incomeand Asset Distribution 91
6 1 The distribution of income 91
611 The 1985/86 Household Income and
Expenditure Survey 91
612 Market engagement, income and asset
distribution 96
6 2 Rural poverty and support for the destitute 100
6 3 The incentive effects of public transfers 104
631 Sample characteristics 104
632 Savings, investment and public cash transfers 109
7 Policy Reform 114
7 1 Review of price and income policy 116
711 Price control, subsidies and income support 117
712 Industrial licensing and rural diversification 119
Contents vii
713 Minimum wage policy and rural wage income 120
7 2 The Botswana National Conservation Strategy 122
727 Diversification in the BNCS 123
722 Environmental statistics and resource
accounting 126
723 The economic implications of the BNCS 135
8 Incentives for Sustainable Development 138
8 1 Incentives for the ecological sustainability of
agriculture 138
811 The domestic resource cost of agriculture 140
812 Incentive reform 142
8 2 Implications for the development of drylands 146
821 Variable and user-enabling incentives 147
822 Risk and uncertainty 149
9 Population, Employment and the Environment 152
9 1 Population and carrying capacity 153
9 2 Population, employment and the incentive structure 157
921 Fertility and income risks 159
922 Fertility and agricultural labour 161
923 Fertility: education and other factors 162
924 Population externality 163
9 3 Population growth and employment generation 165
931 Diversification and employment generation 165
932 Public sector employment generation:
environmentally-compensating projects 169
933 Population policy 170
10 Concluding Remarks 176
Appendices 179
1 Table: Botswana economic profile 180
2 Table: Botswana and Sub-Saharan Africa:
a socioeconomic comparison 182
3 Regression results: expenditure against income
sources (level data) 184
4 Regression results: expenditure against income
sources (share data) 190
viii Contents
5 Map: land tenure in Botswana 196
6 Map: vegetation in Botswana 197
7 Map: Ministry of Agriculture facilities 198
Notes and References 199
Bibliography 202
Index 212
List of Tables
4 1 GDP by sector: 1979/80-1988/89 45
4 2 Employment by sector 47
4 3 Livestock production, 1980-1989 55
4 4 Producer prices paid by BAMB 61
4 5 Yields per hectare planted, 1979/80-1988/89 61
5 1 Principal features of the major agricultural programmes 71
5 2 BMC Index of average value of livestock purchases 76
5 3 Indices of producer prices and crop purchases, BAMB,
1982/3-1989/90 80
5 4 Estimated cost of the agricultural development and relief
programmes, 1981/2-1987/8 83
5 5 Agricultural lending by the NDB and commercial banks,
1980-1987 86
6 1 Rural income distribution 94
6 2 Transfers in rural income 95
6 3 Proportion of households owning or having access to
rural assets 100
6 4 Rural poverty 1985/86 101
7 1 Resource user accounts: sectoral classification 129
7 2 Resource user account for the livestock sector,
1979/80-1985/86 130
7 3 Stock account for the livestock sector,
1979/80 and 1985/86 132
9 1 Household composition: Botswana 1985/6 158
9 2 Fertility, mortality and nutrition 160
9 3 Economic activity of young persons: Botswana 1985/6 161
IX
List of Figures
3 1 Real agricultural commodity prices, 1950-1986 38
4 1 Sectoral GDP at constant 1979/80 prices 46
4 2 Employment by sector 48
4 3 Formal sector employment gap 48
4 4 Real agricultural GDP per capita 52
4 5 Rainfall as a percentage of long run average in selected
countries 53
4 6 Livestock population, 1980-1989 56
4 7 Total crop production, 1980-89 62
4 8 Ratio of area harvested to area planted, sorghum and
maize 63
4 9 Air passenger traffic: Maun 68
5 1 Cattle: index of real average value 75
5 2 Goats: index of real average value 77
5 3 Sorghum and maize: indices of purchases and real
producer prices 81
5 4 Share of bank lending to agriculture, commerce and
households, 1981-1989 85
5 5 Exchange rate indices 88
6 1 Impact of subsidies on production for direct
consumption 98
6 2 Proportion of rural food consumption by income and
source 99
6 3 Registered destitutes: rural Botswana 103
6 4 Demographic distribution of households 105
6 5 Income distribution by gender of household head 107
6 6 Leverage plots: public transfer income on savings and
capital expenditure shares (whole sample) 110
6 7 Leverage plots: public transfer income on savings and
capital expenditure shares (first quartile) 111
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