But growth has slowed in recent decades. The economy is still reliant on mineral revenues, and productivity has declined. Poverty and inequality remain high, compared to other middle-income countries.

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And so a lot of the movement in development economics over the last couple of decades, which has been tremendous, has been towards trying to understand causality: the why. So why did poverty fall?