From Curse to Blessing?: Using Natural Resources to Fuel Sustainable Development

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405196971
• ISBN13: 9781405196970
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"