Raphael Kaplinsky

Beyond the 'resource curse'

Beyond the ‘resource curse’

By Making It on 7 October, 2011

Raphael Kaplinsky discusses why industrialized and low- and middle-income countries need to look past the idea of resources as they know it today

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