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" Why are the world's most dangerous men invariably from major oil producing countries?" Natural resources have a way of corrupting the society. I even did a project on the correlation between corruption and natural resources as a part of GDP. Here's a link , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse


Natural resources have a way of corrupting the society.

Natural resources have a way of bringing corrupt people to take those resources from you.


Good article. It is rather depressing to accept the reality that these countries will only continue to deteriorate for the foreseeable future.


Could this be analogous to the "Curse of the gifted" but on a geopolitical scale?




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