Fuelling war : natural resources and armed conflict / Philippe Le Billon.

A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive regim...

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Main Author: Le Billon, Philippe
Corporate Author: International Institute for Strategic Studies
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 2005.
Series:Adelphi papers ; no. 373.
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