AP Comparative Government and Politics / Unit 5: Political and Economic Changes and Development
5.9 Impact of Natural Resources
Notes
Resource wealth (oil in Nigeria, Russia, Iran, Mexico) can bring revenue but also the resource curse: corruption, conflict, weak diversification, and rentier states.
Practice
The resource curse refers to:
Paradox of plenty.
A rentier state:
Oil revenue.
Nigeria's oil wealth has been linked to:
Resource curse.
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