On average, resource rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources.

Paradoxically, resource rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources.

In resource rich countries, with all the tests and treatment we currently have,

Above all, it is no longer prudent to divide Arab countries between donors and recipients, or between resource rich and resource poor countries.

In Africa, resource rich countries like Congo, Angola, and Sudan have been devastated by civil wars.

Stronger coordination and leadership on financial transparency and resource use are required, supported by the prospect of reducing dependence on development aid and increasing revenues in resource rich developing countries.

Resource rich economies can use commodity stabilization funds to support economic diversity.

Russia is well ahead of most other resource rich countries in its economic development, with a long tradition of education, science, and industry.

None of this is a surprise. In fact, resource rich countries, such as Equatorial Guinea and Sudan, tend to perform worse economically and experience more violent conflict than their resource poor counterparts a phenomenon famously dubbed the resource curse.

Yet rich countries also fail.

Nor are rich countries immune.

This trend has surfaced as a result of the realization of the poor economic performance of many resource rich countries despite their vast wealth.

Some countries become rich when they do business, when they engage in trade with other rich countries.

CAMBRIDGE Almost all rich countries are rich because they exploit technological progress.

Genuine partnership is difficult to achieve when resource rich countries view foreign mining and drilling companies only as adversaries, seeking unfair and inequitable contracting agreements.

Moreover, resource rich developing countries could introduce extraction taxes and support new fiscal systems that promote high labor standards, poverty reduction, education, research, and innovation.

So Honey Bee Network builds upon the resource in which poor people are rich.

As a result, such natural resource rich countries as Algeria, Angola, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Nigeria and South Africa are expected to receive more FDI.

Developing countries blame rich countries for the lack of progress.

Even in rich countries, it usually isn t the rich who die in natural disasters.

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

According to Bloomberg, Russia is considered well ahead of most other resource rich countries in its economic development, with a long tradition of education, science, and industry.

People migrate from poor countries, from middle income countries, and from rich countries.

The world is now divided into rich countries and poor countries.

Over the longer term, the aim should be to conclude an international agreement on resource management. Notwithstanding resource rich developing countries positive prospects, the sustainable management of natural resources, like efforts to promote financial transparency, requires global coordination.

Regrettably, our efforts to build up our own human resource base by utilizing scarce development resources are being thwarted by the recruitment policies of some rich developed countries.

By contrast, vast tracts of disputed land are at stake in the resource rich Himalayan region.

Rich countries should therefore lend their allocations to the countries in need.

Indeed, a robust extractive industry and investment in sustainable development would boost economic prospects for the 100 or so resource rich developing countries and their roughly 3.5 billion people.

With Europe mired in crisis, capital flows from Tunisia s resource rich Arab neighbors are its best hope.

All sides accept that this large and resource rich country has under performed for far too long.

So far, China s FDI outflows have been concentrated in developing countries and a handful of resource rich developed countries, including Australia and Canada, and have been aimed at facilitating trade and acquiring access to natural resources.

200 years ago, rich countries were only 3 times richer than poor countries.

Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.

But the rich countries have instead adopted failed strategies.

Rich G 20 countries could go further and faster.

Myth 5 Offshoring of jobs will devastate rich countries.

We have spoken regularly about the unacceptable levels of resource flow from the poor nations to the rich.

In resource rich countries, with all the tests and treatment we currently have, less than two percent of babies are born HIV positive 98 percent of babies are born HIV negative.

This pressure is compounded in resource rich Latin American countries by the increase in commodity prices caused by a similar search for yield and by the fall in the dollar s value.

Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.

Contrary to much popular opinion, trade with poor countries does not pauperize rich countries.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years.

The rich countries could easily come up with the money.

Unfortunately, the world s rich countries currently are making things worse.