Translation of "Rohstoffreichtum" in English

The abundance of raw materials and hard currency reserves did not protect Russia from the international financial crisis.

The Scandinavian nation owes this fact to its wealth of resources, particularly its rich offshore oil deposits.

However, an abundance of natural resources alone does not automatically lead to development in which all people can participate.

As reported in The Copenhagen Post, the wealth of raw materials is both a curse and a blessing.

Aware of the potential of their country's natural wealth, many Libyans had also become conscious that its benefits reached very few of the population.

The wealth of raw materials led to an economic upturn, but also led to dependency, and even wars with neighbouring states.

Numerous studies, including one by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, have shown a link between natural resource abundance and poor economic growth.

As a result, Qatar now rivals Saudi Arabia – another Wahhabi state with enormous resource wealth – in exporting Islamist extremism.

First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the region is increasingly vulnerable to the so-called “Dutch disease,” whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial markets.

An influential study by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner found a strong correlation between natural resource abundance and poor economic growth.

From Iran's standpoint, the size and population of the country, its wealth in raw materials and its strategic geographical location gives it "a quasi natural preeminence in the region, wrote the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) already two years ago.

It is the ninth economic power in the world and these cities, like many others, Canada offers to the indigenous population and the immigrants living there well-developed foreign trade, abundant natural resources, low unemployment, public education, affordable health care, protection of civil rights and freedoms, high quality of life and economic freedoms.

In order to increase the benefits from their commodity-based wealth, the countries need to invest in reprocessing plants and energy efficiency measures.

At the same time, Latin America's traditional position on the global market, which is based on the region's raw material wealth, will be further consolidated on account of these developments.

However, even though the government has been pursuing economic reforms, it has not yet succeeded in using the country's wealth of raw materials to foster economic and social development.

In the past, Sierra Leone's mineral wealth in diamonds, iron ore, bauxite and many other materials was more of a curse than a blessing.

A growing number of developing countries have set themselves the goal of increasing the benefit they gain from their own natural resource wealth.

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The financial mineral wealth and whatever national credit that can be generated in the rich countries can be balanced against the skills of the labor of the others in the short term to launch the reconstruction process and immediately.

Our program for the development of the region would shift this imbalance dramatically as both the financial wealth, mineral wealth, human resources and skills would be directed towards one unified mission for all the countries.

The quality of governance is key in determining whether and to what extent developing countries are able to benefit from their domestic resource wealth on a sustained basis.

With about 65 million inhabitants in Central Asia and about 16 million in the Caucasus, these two regions represent huge economies with a wealth of resources and partly growing sales markets.

So far, the country's economic growth and wealth of resources are only benefiting a small section of the population. The lives of large numbers of Indonesians are still dominated by poverty.

Kazakhstan has a fabulous wealth of natural resources: enormous oil and gas reserves, coal and ore deposits, semi-precious stones and building materials.