The idea of building up an endowment to replace shrinking natural resources did not exist.

建立基金以替代日益减少的自然资源，这样的想法还不存在。

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Many researches reveal that there is a significantly negative relationship between the natural resources endowment and the economic growth in some countries, which is so-called resources curse effect.

大量研究显示，一些国家的自然资源禀赋与经济增长之间存在显著的负相关关系，存在所谓的“资源诅咒”效应。

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Later, the theory of factor endowment has been established, putting a nation's natural resources as a whole into duly consideration in foreign trade studies.

后来又出现了要素禀赋理论，将一个国家整体的资源优势纳入到国际贸易研究之中。

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Outside of oil and gas projects and a few specific infrastructure projects (ports like Jebel Ali and airports like Dubai), far less real economic development has happened in the oil-rich parts of the Arab world than would be expected based on their great endowment of human and natural resources.

FORBES: Why Have The Islamic Countries Failed To Develop Even With Resources Like Oil, While Countries With No Resources Like Switzerland Have Flourished?