Sustaining Growth in a Resource-based Economy
Subtitle: The Main Issues and the Specific Case of Russia
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Published: February 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9789211169348
Subjects: Development - Economic Development; Development - Sustainable Development; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Agricultural Economics; Economic Development; Business & Economics; Business/Economics
First sentence: In the 1950s and 1960s economists generally saw abundant natural resource endowments as facilitating a country's rapid development,2 but in the last two decades many have come to see natural resources as an obstacle to successful development.