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Botswana invested its diamond wealth in its citizens. Has it all been for naught?

Botswana Did Everything Right Botswana invested its diamond wealth in its citizens. Has it all been for naught? Cremieux Jul 29, 2026 243 17 25 Share Today’s post is brought to you by my sponsor, Mechanize . They’re hiring junior software engineers at $300K/year base salary. Having a wealth of natural resources isn’t all upside; in fact, many of the countries with the greatest mineral bounties are among the world’s poorest and most dysfunctional. Economists have noticed this and dubbed it the “ resource curse ”, the paradoxical observation that countries with lots of natural resources have slo

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