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The Resource Curse RevisitedThere is a curious phenomenon that economists call the resource curse - so named because, on average, countries with large endowments of natural resources perform worse than countries that are less well endowed.
Why is the spell of the resource curse cast so unequally?
Abundant natural resources can and should be a blessing, not a curse.
Are GMOs a blessing or a curse for these people and the farmers among them?
Sixteen years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi, a blessing and a curse for the Italian people, made his first foray into the political ring.
In a single instant of unfathomable fury, his moment of glory was transformed into one of madness and a curse.
A dysfunctional justice system and a jungle of red tape are a perennial curse for investors.
Is oil a blessing or a curse?
On a continent where mineral wealth too often has become a curse, Botswana, under the leadership of President Festus Gontebanye Mogae, has demonstrated how natural resources can promote sustainable development and good governance.
Adherence to these principles ensures that private rent-seeking and appropriation of oil profits, a major dimension of the so-called resource curse, is avoided.
Quite simply, we stopped viewing our geography and history as a curse or disadvantage.
This sense of disempowerment is threatening to turn the developing world’s youth bulge into a youth curse – with serious potential consequences.
As so often in the rest of the world, windfall wealth such as came to Norway because of its oil and gas, can be a curse as much as it is a blessing.
Its source is the idea, found both in the Bible and in classical economics, that work is a curse (or, as economists put it, a “cost”), undertaken only for the sake of making a living.
It recently found a new source of wealth, natural gas, but may become yet another victim of the so-called “natural resource curse.”
Exports are yet to begin, but the threat of the resource curse is already present.
The biggest challenge for the next government is to acknowledge the risks and dangers of the resource curse, and design a new, creative model to avoid it.
We should curse the naiveté that led many, including me, to sanctify the “Lady of Rangoon,” Aung San Suu Kyi, herself the subject of a film, this one intended to be hagiographic but, in hindsight, appalling.
Poles consider their current borders sacred, not a curse, as in Hungary.
Thus, the resources that should benefit developing countries instead become a curse that brings corruption, coups, and civil wars.
But we must identify and protect against the many ways that it can become a curse.
For many poor countries, wealth in natural resources is a curse rather than a benefit.
The facts are hard to dispute; indeed, the historical record is now so stark that diehard Republicans are probably starting to wonder if there is a curse.
At its worst, it is part of America’s curse.
And Morocco, contrary to Algeria, does not suffer from the curse of oil.
A weak Europe is an unmitigated curse.
Without a fundamentally different approach to aging, the gift of extended longevity could become a curse.
Another unexpected outcome of the election is that the SPD’s leaders are now arguing for joining the opposition – as if participation in the government were a curse to be avoided at all costs.
There is no curse that keeps Israelis and Palestinians from living side by side peacefully.
For Europe’s task is to maintain and strengthen structures of cooperation that retain the advantages of diversity and independence without reviving the old curse of the European nation state: xenophobia, bloodshed, and war.
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