The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse The only seeming e

The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealth, and then only discovered that wealth fairly recently.