Indonesia’s nickel boom tripled export value while poverty in the district hosting it fell no faster than the national average.

Development economist and economic historian who writes…

Morowali’s poverty rate has seen a modest decline since 2016, from around 15% to 12%, but this puts it squarely in the middle of the pack of other Sulawesi districts—and not far from the decline in the national average, which fell from 10.9% to 8.6% over the same period.