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The country’s trajectory shows that natural endowments are neither destiny nor curse; governance determines the outcome.<\/p>\n
The ‘resource curse’ or ‘paradox of plenty’ affects many resource-rich African countries. In many cases, natural resources fuel<\/a> corruption, conflicts, economic stagnation and institutional weakness. Botswana stands out as a remarkable counter-example.<\/p>\n At independence in 1966, Botswana was one of the world’s poorest countries, with limited infrastructure, a weak health system, and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The country’s trajectory shows that natural endowments are neither destiny nor curse; governance determines the outcome. The ‘resource curse’ or ‘paradox of plenty’ affects many resource-rich African countries. In many cases, natural resources fuel corruption, conflicts, economic stagnation and institutional weakness. Botswana stands out as a remarkable counter-example. At independence in 1966, Botswana was one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,1167,6677,6866,257,254,45534],"class_list":["post-207528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-diamonds","tag-good","tag-governance","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-valued"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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