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Ideas
The country’s leaders avoided a populist backlash by engineering an economic boom. Now the boom is creating problems of its own.
First published in The Atlantic on June 1, 2026.
by Rogé Karma, The Atlantic
June 3, 2026
| reading time: 13 Min.
Updated at 10:55 a.m. ET on June 1, 2026











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