Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse?
研究了高度依赖黄金收入的圭亚那经济表现不佳的原因，指出政府干预形成的本地中小型金矿模式虽看似理想，却仍面临资源诅咒风险，需提前应对。
This article offers explanations for the underwhelming economic performance of Guyana, a country heavily dependent on the revenue generated from gold mining. Here, government intervention has spawned a gold mining sector which today is comprised exclusively of local small and medium-scale operators. But whilst this rather unique model appears to be the ideal blueprint for facilitating local development, the country seems to be experiencing many of the same setbacks that have beset scores of other resource-rich developing world economies. Unless these problems are anticipated, properly diagnosed and appropriately tackled, a resource curse-type outcome is inevitable, irrespective of the context.