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But development data remain a scarce resource in the developing world.
Better gender statistics could provide a more detailed understanding of women’s access to justice, education, and finance; improved measures of poverty and inequality could reveal how the benefits of economic growth are distributed; and natural capital accounting could uncover the value of resource endowments, thereby helping to ensure that they are used in a rational and sustainable manner.
In practice, green accounting might easily have led our forefathers not to cut down forests, because this would entail losing a valuable resource.
Seed is also transformed in this way from being a renewable regenerative resource into a non-renewable resource and commodity.
Chile’s traditional left, arguing that lithium is legally classified as a strategic resource, rules out any further private-sector involvement in its production.
We know that this will happen, and we know that people do not always make the wisest decisions when faced with deprivation of an essential resource.
Ukraine’s industrial and manufacturing infrastructure evolved under the Soviet Union as a compliment to Russia’s resource base.
After the Soviet Union’s dissolution, the Russian resource economy’s traditional links with Ukraine, including extensive pipeline infrastructure, ensured access to European markets.
Now, having lost Ukraine’s industrial and manufacturing base, and with Europe more determined than ever to reduce its dependence on Russian energy supplies, the Kremlin will need to turn eastward toward China, which will be happy to see Russia remain a resource economy in thrall to it.
It is about correcting market failures so that markets and entrepreneurship can play their proper role of ensuring innovation and efficient resource allocation.
Rather, Singapore’s leaders have consistently emphasized that the need to ensure that the most capable people are in charge is particularly pressing in a tiny city-state with a small population, limited resource base, and potentially hostile neighbors.
But if central bankers think that today’s inflation is simply the product of short-term resource scarcities as opposed to lax monetary policy, they are mistaken.
Argentina has much going for it: widespread literacy, a healthy population, a highly productive agricultural economy, and a strong natural resource base.
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?
When the exchange rate soars as a result of resource booms, countries cannot export manufactured or agriculture goods, and domestic producers cannot compete with an onslaught of imports.
We also know that stabilization funds - which set aside some of the money earned when prices are high - can help reduce the economic volatility associated with natural resource prices.
The Dutch disease, however, is one of the more intractable consequences of oil and resource wealth, at least for poor countries.
Rather than paying lip service to climate change and resource scarcity, we start to respect and uphold the limits of our planet and its atmosphere.
The rules of the global economy also remain untouchable, making it nearly impossible to restructure financial and trade policies to ensure that they do not result in more poverty, unchecked climate change, and irreversible resource destruction.
The Petri-Plummer model is squarely rooted in decades of academic trade modeling, which makes a sharp distinction between microeconomic effects (shaping resource allocation across sectors) and macroeconomic effects (related to overall levels of demand and employment).
From a climate perspective, the temperature rise over time is arguably more a function of the size of the fossil-fuel resource base and the efficiency of extraction at a given energy price.
Those, of course, were code words for surplus saving, excessive investment, open-ended resource demand, environmental degradation, and mounting income inequalities.
When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.
The strategy should be to transform Russia’s eastern regions into one of rising Asia’s resource and food bases.
China, Asia, and the world would get a new resource and food-supply base, easing emerging shortages.
It is almost enough to have one longing again for the day when information was a scarce resource and one had to go out to find it.
A purchase will always look beneficial if one looks backward after the resource price has risen.
Similarly, the creation of international strategic resource reserves on neutral territory and under neutral management could help alleviate concerns about politically motivated disruptions.
As the world heads toward catastrophic levels of resource depletion and environmental degradation, calls for a new economic model – whether green, blue, circular, or something else –will only grow louder.
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