Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Resource Curse in Africa
There's something called the resource curse some places that are seemingly blessed with you know great stores of rare earth in minerals or oil or natural gas their nightmare places to live. Other places like North America are comparatively much more egalitarian and democratic with strong institutions so why do some countries fall prey to the resource curse and others just benefit from their resources? I don't think anyone knows the answer to that but overall it does seem that readily available natural resource rents are bad for many countries.
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