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In theory every country rich in natural resources should follow Norway's example but in practice the presence of natural resources tends to exert a strong corru
by pytester 8y ago
In theory every country rich in natural resources should follow Norway's example but in practice the presence of natural resources tends to exert a strong corrupting influence on both the economy and the political system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
- RobertoG 8y agoIn theory you are right but, in practice, that only happens because they don't follow Norway's example :-)
- marvin 8y agoNorway only dodged this because we had a supremely visionary Iraqi visit the authorities, and managed to convince them of this danger while the industrial influence was still small enough for government to manage. It's a remarkably lucky coincidence.
- fireflies_ 8y agoDo you have any resources about this? It sounds like a fascinating story.
- maaaats 8y agoFarouk al-Kasim. It's a fascinating story, glad I found this in webarchive as it's now behind a paywall. http://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html http://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/...
- bscphil 8y agoThank you, this is fascinating!
- netsharc 8y agoHoly moly, what a story. I remember reading it a few years ago, and what a crazy example of butterfly effect. The one Norwegian girl who decided she wanted to be an au-pair in London, and met an Iraqi boy there, changed the whole country.
- aerophilic 8y agoI really enjoyed the story... but find myself wondering what was the specific “magic” that made it work. Nowadays everything is “setup” for the cooperation of public and private, but what are the key “ingredients” to make it happen? The fact that this worked out, is it something unique to that situation, or cannot be duplicated? The part I find most enticing is this idea of the government shouldering 50% of the risk, and industry only having to do 15%. If anyone could expand on this, I would appreciate it.
- patrickk 8y ago> Nowadays everything is “setup” for the cooperation of public and private, but what are the key “ingredients” to make it happen? Norweigans trust their government, corruption is low, there's strong institutions already in place (a point specifically mentioned by al-Kasim in the Planet Money podcast) to ensure a competent and transparent execution of the plan. There's not many places in the world where all those factors exist sadly.
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoIs there a source of information you could point me to that explains more of this story?
- maaaats 8y agoSee my link to a sibling comment of yours
- aembleton 8y agoPlanet Money made an episode about this http://www.podcasts.com/npr_planet_money_podcast/episode/301_norways_got_advice_for_libya http://www.podcasts.com/npr_planet_money_podcast/episode/301...
- sseppola 8y agoThanks!
- the-dude 8y agoDutch disease : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
- ethbro 8y agoAlso the "resource curse". Although a more accurate formulation seems to be the "sudden resource curse". E.g. how the discovery that citrus prevents scurvy and the subsequent spike in prices likely led to the emergence of the Sicilian mafia