Open Access BASE2014
Mixed blessings, Naazneen H Barma surveys the various resource curses plaguing Asia and the Pacific
Abstract
The Asia Pacific region is renowned for its natural resource abundance, from exhaustible petroleum and mineral reserves to renewable stores of timber, agriculture, and fisheries. It is a well-known paradox that, instead of serving as the blessing they would appear to be, these resources are often experienced as a political and economic curse.
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