Tunaweza kutumia utajiri wa madini kuleta uchumi wa viwanda?
Angalia kinachotokea katika nchi zenye utajiri wa mafuta!
Petrol-producing countries
Oil-rich countries saw similar failures in their economic choices. An
EIA report stated that
OPEC member nations were projected to earn a net amount of $1.251 trillion in 2008 from their oil exports.
[12] Because oil is both important and expensive, regions that had big
reserves of oil had huge
liquidity incomes. However, this was rarely followed by economic development. Experience shows that local
elites were unable to re-invest the
petrodollars obtained through oil export, and currency is wasted in
luxury goods.
[13]
This is particularly evident in the
Persian Gulf states, where the
per capita income is comparable to those of western nations, but where no industrialisation has started. Apart from two little countries (
Bahrain and the
United Arab Emirates), the
Persian Gulf states have not
diversified their economies, and no replacement for the
upcoming end of oil reserves is envisaged