Abstract Botswana has achieved significant socio-economic development despite its low-income status in 1966 when colonial rule ended, earning it the status of an “African success story” and “African miracle”. Botswana’s development was achieved in great part to its abundance of natural resources (diamonds), in contrast to other African countries that displayed conditions affiliated with the “resource curse”: corruption, rent-seeking behaviour by the ruling class, Dutch disease, declining terms of trade, the absence of economic diversification, and even civil conflict. Despite its extensive coverage in political economy and development studies literature, Botswana’s socio-economic development has yet to be interrogated through a law and development lens. Yong-Shik Lee offers a theoretical framework to conduct such an analysis in his article, General Theory of Law and Development, which proposes that law directly impacts development through three categorical Regulatory Impact Mechanisms: regulatory design; regulatory compliance; and quality of implementation. This article applies Lee’s theory to Botswana, making it one of the first applications of Lee’s theory to an African case study.

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李Y声法学与发展通论在博茨瓦纳的应用

摘要博茨瓦纳尽管在1966年殖民统治结束时处于低收入状态，但仍取得了显着的社会经济发展，使其享有“非洲成功故事”和“非洲奇迹”的地位。博茨瓦纳的发展很大程度上得益于其丰富的自然资源（钻石），而其他非洲国家则表现出与“资源诅咒”相关的条件：腐败，统治阶级的寻租行为，荷兰病，条件下降贸易，缺乏经济多元化甚至内战。尽管博茨瓦纳广泛地研究政治经济学和发展研究文献，但仍未从法律和发展的角度来审视博茨瓦纳的社会经济发展。Lee Yong-Shik Lee在他的文章中提供了进行此类分析的理论框架，《法律与发展通论》提出，法律通过三种分类的监管影响机制直接影响发展。监管合规；和实施质量。本文将Lee的理论应用于博茨瓦纳，使其成为Lee的理论在非洲案例研究中的最早应用之一。