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Easy to explore natural resources tend to impede economic development.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers
by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Tue Mar 10th, 2009 at 12:37:36 PM EST
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Only if there is a market for ill-gotten loot.

And that market exists in The West(TM).

Clamp down on all the diamond smuggling, dirty oil deals and so on and so forth, and you might actually create an incentive structure that isn't quite so badly skewed towards looting.

Kinda the same way that a British effort at prosecuting Russian oligarchs in London for tax evasions might have stopped the looting of Russia.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Mar 10th, 2009 at 01:33:19 PM EST
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