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But when an easily extractable, government-controlled resource accounts for a large share of national output, democracy can suffer.
This system recognizes that antibiotics are a shared and exhaustible resource on which the viability of a range of other pharmaceutical products and medical devices – from chemotherapy to joint replacements – depends.
But achieving that goal requires accelerating progress toward eradicating the diseases that continue to deplete our communities of their most valuable resource: healthy people.
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.
This may be true when the economy is operating at full employment – when state and market are in competition for every last resource.
Economic growth at that pace exceeds the expansion of aggregate supply, straining resource use and prodding the Federal Reserve to continue along its path of gradual interest-rate renormalization.
Relentless extraction is quickly depleting China’s resource deposits.
Africa is the last frontier for resource discovery, having long been relatively neglected by mining and other resource-extraction companies, owing to difficult political conditions.
Given that resource extraction per square kilometer in Africa is about 20% of the OECD average, the total volume of extraction could easily grow fivefold.
Certainly, income from resource extraction will dwarf all other financial flows there.
The challenge now is to prevent the continent’s sad history of exploitation from repeating itself during the coming era of massive resource extraction.
Foreign companies manage nearly all resource extraction in Africa, because they alone have the necessary technical skills.
In any case, the major new players in resource extraction are not in the OECD.
Global oversight of resource extraction is a perfect economic-development issue for the G-20, not least because the theatrical pledges of aid to poor countries that were the stuff of G-8 meetings have now been recognized as empty rhetoric.
Fifth, we must reform how we manage water resources and water infrastructure, so that this precious resource can be re-used several times, and on a city-wide scale .
Finally, we must change the way we manage solid waste so that it becomes a resource, not a cost.
When a country like Ukraine develops slowly and remains poor, it is not because of natural disaster or resource constraints.
Many free-market ideologues ridicule the idea that natural resource constraints will now cause a significant slowdown in global growth.
Better technologies have allowed the world economy to continue to grow despite tough resource constraints in the past.
First, history has already shown how resource constraints can hinder global economic growth.
If we continue on our current course – leaving fate to the markets, and leaving governments to compete with each other over scarce oil and food – global growth will slow under the pressures of resource constraints.
It amounts to a permanent and valuable resource for research into vector control and disease transmission in Bangladesh.
We know that a resource crunch of unprecedented scale is coming.
Ironically, in an era of mounting resource competition, cooperation to rebuild depleted fish stocks would actually result in a greater catch for all.
When a country's newly discovered natural resource abundance leads to windfall wealth, investment in the rest of its economy shifts away from the tradeables sector (mainly manufactured exports) and into the nontradeables sector (mainly consumer goods and services).
If and when the natural resource generating the windfall wealth (in this case, oil and gas) disappears, the economy is left with too few competitive industries and too many empty bookstore-cafes.
These countries, like Norway, were winners in the natural resource lottery.
Their “state capitalism” – a large role for state-owned companies; an even larger role for state-owned banks; resource nationalism; import-substitution industrialization; and financial protectionism and controls on foreign direct investment – is the heart of the problem.
Next, suppose that the price of the natural resource that is the country’s largest export suddenly dips sharply (as has happened recently).
Second, greater reliance on services allows China to settle into a lower and more sustainable growth trajectory, tempering the excessive resource- and pollution-intensive activities driven by the hyper-growth of manufacturing and construction.
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