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Currency flows and flaws: Brenner
Published: 9 September 2015
This op-ed is written by Reuven Brenner, the Repap Chair at ’s Desautels faculty of Management.
Much has been written on the “Dutch Disease” – how countries relying on their natural resources often fall on hard times, failing to develop. A Chinese observer, Laozi, in 81 BC had this to say: “A country is never as poor as when it seems filled with riches” (in Yan Tie Lun, A Discourse on Salt and Iron). Only these days, the natural riches are oil (in Canada, Norway, Russia, Middle East) and in Australia, iron ore.
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