Natural Resource Abundance

Introduction The abundance of natural resources in donor countries was previously thought to be a good factor for economic growth. In recent decades in the face of several economic, political and social literature reviews natural resources have a considerable impact on economic performance (especially growth), type of regime, inequality, poverty and civil war I came. Regarding natural resources affecting economic development, Andrew Rosser (2006) pointed out that by the late 1980s, common sense about the relationship between natural resource abundance and development was that the latter helped the latter .

Excessive dependence on abundant natural resources and resources has been recognized as an important feature that has plagued the Congolese civil war to date. The roots of these conflicts were the system of the Belgian colonial period in the latter half of the 19th century. By using mineral resources to privately enrich, colonial rulers have laid the foundation for an independent turbulent era characterized by dictatorship, rebellion, and separatist warfare. Under the reign of former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, the corruption of the Democratic Republic of Congo reached an unprecedented level, and he led to Gécamines (large state owned mining). Company) closed. After Mobutu was knocked down in 1997, President Joseph Kabila (in 2001 replacing his father Laurent) promoted personal corruption.

Michael Renner, a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, studied how severe disputes the natural resource abundance contributed to. Conflict is done only to manage precious resources such as diamonds, petroleum, narcotics, but the benefits gained from these resources are also used for further violence at the expense of human life and the environment by the corrupt regime I will. Renner quoted concrete examples of these conflicts and analyzed the efforts to stop them. Richard A. Matthew, director of Global Environmental Change and Human Security at the University of California, Irvine, said that environmental safety research has a complex interrelationship between physical geography, environmental degradation, and political instability I will write that it will help you to understand.