Botswana isn’t that low income: slightly above the world average by PPP apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_BotswanaNot that I think this necessarily makes applying your idea there bad, just important not to fall into stereotypes about Africa, when Botswana is a famous success story. (Yes, it’s still poor, but far less than it was at independence.)
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Botswana isn’t that low income: slightly above the world average by PPP apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Botswana
Not that I think this necessarily makes applying your idea there bad, just important not to fall into stereotypes about Africa, when Botswana is a famous success story. (Yes, it’s still poor, but far less than it was at independence.)
Oops—corrected, sorry!