From Curse to Blessing?: Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development (International Social Science Journal Monograph Series)

by IrakliKhodeli (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $27.57

  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. This book discusses the counterintuitive phenomenon known as the resource curse and how mineral wealth can impoverish countries.