As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

So I think what needs to happen is he needs to be removed from power,

He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he puts himself in a position where he can bail out his cronies who are in financial difficulties, including his son and so on,

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.