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Indeed, from West Africa to Mongolia, countries are experiencing windfalls from new discoveries of oil and mineral wealth.
Heightening the euphoria are the historic levels that oil and mineral prices have reached on world markets over the last four years.
Governments that can finance themselves simply by retaining physical control over oil or mineral deposits often fail in the long run to develop institutions that are conducive to economic development.
The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.
For years, the People’s Republic has been engaged in frenzied damming of rivers and unbridled exploitation of mineral wealth on the resource-rich Tibetan Plateau.
Though much of the bottled water currently sold in China comes from other sources – chemically treated tap water or mineral water from other provinces – China seems to think that the bottling of Himalayan glacier water can serve as a new engine of growth, powered by government subsidies.
As a result, China’s economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
Careful studies need to be done to determine available energy, land, mineral, and biological resources before projects proceed.
Despite new joint projects in energy efficiency and environmental protection, areas in which China ranks Japan as the best performer among industrialized countries, the two sides remain in bitterly divided over these territorial waters, which contain huge potential oil, gas, and other mineral deposits.
The brain, bone, and mineral mass scale to height by a power greater than two; while fat mass scales to height by a power of 1.8-2.6,
Unlike the Chinese, the Russians do not create economic wealth, but merely exploit their energy and mineral resources.
In the last five years, the country’s northeastern region – once a hub of basic industries like oil and steel – has been facing accelerating decline, as have the rich mineral resource centers in places like Hebei and Inner Mongolia.
Although Zimbabwe has more natural resources and mineral wealth, it has far less land and extreme poverty is much more widespread.
Science and Africa's SalvationAfrica is a rich continent -- rich in bio-diversity, rich in mineral resources, rich in precious stones.
So, in the short run, mineral exporters like Peru and Chile are benefiting.
The US Defense Department has valued Afghanistan’s untapped mineral deposits at $1 trillion.
Moreover, its democracy has matured, and its economy is advancing toward modernity, driven by an economic bonanza of mineral resources, mainly oil, coal, and gold.
We face numerous other threats as well: the spread of toxic synthetic chemicals worldwide, vast epidemics, and a dramatic decline in the quality and accessibility of mineral resources, water, and soils.
States own land, mineral rights, and infrastructure.
Globally, Russia is competitive in defense products, space launches, nuclear power, mineral resources, and information technology.
Moreover, as if to substantiate the Chinese name for Tibet, Xizang (“Western Treasure Land”), China is draining mineral resources from this ecologically fragile but resource-rich plateau, without regard for the consequences.
But, although Iran’s oil minister, Rostam Qassemi, said in October that negotiations were underway, Egypt’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources, Osama Kamal, quickly disavowed any such deal.
In 1969, the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) completed a seabed survey of the East China Sea, and reported the possible presence of vast underground mineral resources, including abundant oil and natural gas reserves near the Senkakus.
The country’s economic expansion, which averaged 5.5% in the last four years and fuelled the progress of neighboring economies, appeared to prove that vigorous growth is possible in Africa even without mineral or fossil resources.
While Asia’s resource-hungry economies can secure fossil fuels and mineral ores from distant lands, they cannot import water, which is prohibitively expensive to transport.
With funding, Kijana could tell the story of how mineral mining, the DRC’s largest export industry, is likely fueling the bloodletting in eastern Congo; and Funes could investigate how corruption in Honduras is likely perpetuating an epidemic of violence against women.
The country is rich in mineral resources that China needs, but it is the US that spends $10 billion a month occupying a country whose annual GDP is only $15 billion.
As things stand, the US is likely to reduce its presence before Afghanistan is pacified and the mineral resources developed.
This is precisely why Africa’s biggest folly is to believe that mineral resources and other raw commodities are automatically a source of wealth.
After all, the granting of mineral resources to foreigners reduces – and could even eliminate – their benefits for local people.
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