Resource Curse

Within the wiki, the resource curse appears as one of the named topics of John Hoffmire’s weekly Deseret News column, sitting alongside the other development-economics threads he writes on — energy poverty, water access, ESOPs, family business, malaria, and financial literacy. It is referenced as a subject of his writing rather than analyzed in its own right in the source.

Context: The “resource curse” (or paradox of plenty) is the development-economics observation that countries rich in natural resources — especially oil and minerals — often grow more slowly and govern worse than resource-poor peers, due to mechanisms like revenue volatility, currency effects that crowd out other industries (Dutch disease), rent-seeking, and weakened state institutions.

Where this appears

• John Hoffmire — listed as a named topic of Hoffmire’s weekly Deseret News column on energy poverty, water access, employee ownership, and development.