Diamonds, De Beers and defying the resources curse
- Publishing Date
- 03 Feb 2010 4:14pm GMT
- Issue/Supplement
- January/February 2010
- Author
- Mining, People and the Environment
Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Sustainability
The idea that countries richly endowed with natural resources could be at a disadvantage to other states without similar natural resources, is deeply counter-intuitive. However, this so-called ‘resource curse’ is now considered by many to be a defining characteristic of many of sub-Saharan Africa’s less successful states. Botswana on the other hand has enjoyed half a century of uninterrupted growth
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