I've always wondered about African countries like Gabon that nominally post decent GDP and HDI numbers but that don't often make subjective lists of relatively-rich parts of the continent. Are these actually okay places to live for the average person to the same extent that, say, Botswana is, or do their governments just pump a bunch of resource-exports money into favored sectors of society?
I've heard of Gabon specifically being mostly a heavily-subsidized petrostate where very little of the wealth goes anywhere outside of the ruling class or foreign investors (if there can be said to be much of a difference).
