From Curse to Blessing?: Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development (International Social Science Journal Monograph Series)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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- From Curse to Blessing?: Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development (International Social Science Journal Monograph Series)
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- Wiley-Blackwell
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- 2009
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- Paperback
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- English
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- 1405196971
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- 9781405196970
- Shows how despite unprecedentedly high prices of natural resources such as oil and gas on the global market, resource-rich countries are home to over 60% of the world’s poorest people
- Discusses the counterintuitive phenomenon known as the “resource curse” and how mineral wealth can impoverish countries
- Presents the major obstacles for the international community in the fight against poverty and in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
- Debates the ways to lift the curse, and suggests policy interventions to break the vicious circle
- Includes cross-country comparisons as well as focussing on countries such as Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and the Russian Federation
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