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From Curse To Blessing?: Using Natural Resources To Fuel Sustainable Development: 1
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Book Type: Non Fiction-Global/Environment/Politics
This book investigates how revenues derived from natural resource exploitation can be translated into real benefits for the citizens of resource-rich countries
- 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