Canuto, Otaviano; Cavallari, Matheus - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2012) 83, pp. 1-6
An abundance of natural resources is intuitively expected to be a blessing. Nonetheless, it has been argued for some decades that large endowments of natural resources—oil, gas, and minerals in particular—may actually become more of a curse, often leading to slow economic growth and...