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On a map of lived prosperity, it looks very different. Only about 21 per cent of Congolese people have access to electricity, according to the World Bank. Poverty remains deep, insecurity persistent and the state distant or predatory for many citizens. The country’s most important economic question is therefore not how much wealth lies beneath its soil or runs through its rivers. It is whether that wealth can be converted into power, production and broadly shared opportunity..."