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GreatArchitect t1_iuc9jwu wrote

Reply to comment by _Iro_ in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

Actually, not really. The resource curse has been well documenred elsewhere, like the Middle East and Southeast Asia but Africa has been to disunified and plagued by conflict anyway for the curse to take place. The resources in these nations are squandered through corruption but most are still untapped by their fledgling economies.

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_Iro_ t1_iucjgu5 wrote

What are you mean? The DRC is one of the primary sources of resource curse scholarship in regards to the role of conflict resources (blood diamonds) in sustaining intrastate conflict. I think you might be thinking of a very narrow definition of the resource curse in the context of rentierism

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