Oil wealth fails to translate into human development in most petro-states

Evidence

That gap of forty-three places between Saudi Arabia’s GDP and its Human Development Index was exceeded only by three other nation-states, all so-called oil rich: Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Gabon. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete data point usable in ch14’s resource-curse discussion from this same book and in eco-justice course material on extractive economies. — connects to: Oil-rich Middle East countries have done worse economically than oil-poor ones — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1631; Human development is growing interdependence, not independence.; Mass oil revenues left Nigeria ranked below Haiti on human development — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 297 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Mass oil revenues left Nigeria ranked below Haiti on human development #exemplifies (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 297
• Oil-rich Middle East countries have done worse economically than oil-poor ones #corroborates (0.78) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1631
• Oil wealth has created homogenized cities marked by frantic pace #qualifies (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 72
• Human development is growing interdependence, not independence. #expands (0.72)