There is a curious phenomenon that economists call the resource curse - so named because, on average, countries with large endowments of natural resources perform worse than countries that are less well endowed. Yet some countries with abundant natural resources do perform better than others, and some have done well.
在经济学中，有一种奇怪的现象，经济学家称之为'资源劫难'。之所以冠名如此，是因为，一般来说，那些拥有大量丰富自然资源的国家，它们的经济发展反而不如那些相对来说资源较不丰富的国家。但是，的确有一些自然资源丰富的国家比其他国家发展迅速，而且其中某些国家已经相当富裕。为什么同是资源丰富，却给有的国家带来劫难，有的国家带来好运呢？