Lost in the euphoria sweeping through the Middle East and north Africa is the fact that in many of these countries, including Libya, oil revenues have propped up corrupt regimes but not benefited their people. It is a sad fact of economic life that democratic moments in oil states will probably fail to deliver a higher quality of life if their energy revenues do not promote broad economic growth. Yet there are signs elsewhere that this “resource curse” can be defeated.
在席捲中東和北非的歡騰浪潮之中，人們遺忘了一點事實：在這些地區的許多國家，包括利比亞，石油收入支撐著腐敗政權，卻沒有造福人民。在民主降臨石油國家的時刻，假如他們的能源收入不能推動整體經濟成長，那麼人民的生活質量大概也將無法提高。這是經濟生活中一個可悲的事實。不過，在其他地方已經有跡象顯示，這種「資源詛咒」能夠破解。
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