Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Part I.Introduction -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part II. Critical Parameters in Resource-Based Development Models -- 2. Natural Resources, Capital Accumulation, Structural Change, and Welfare -- 3. The Sustainability of Extractive Economies -- 4. Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Growth -- 5. The Social Foundations of Poor Economic Growth in Resource-Rich Countries -- Part III. Long-Term Perspective on, and Models of, Resource-Based Growth -- 6. Natural Resources and Economic Development: The 1870-1914 Experience -- 7. Short-Run Models of Contrasting Natural Resource Endowments -- 8. Political Economy of Resource-Abundant States -- Part IV. Development Trajectories of Resource-Abundant Countries -- 9. Competitive Industrialization with Natural Resource Abundance: Malaysia -- 10. A Growth Collapse with Diffuse Resources: Ghana -- 11. A Growth Collapse with Point Resources: Bolivia -- 12. A Growth Collapse with High Rent Point Resources: Saudi Arabia -- 13. Large Resource-Abundant Countries Squander their Size Advantage: Mexico and Argentina -- Part V. Lessons for Policy Reform -- 14. Reforming a Small Resource-Rich Developing Market Economy: Costa Rica -- 15. Growth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Reform in South Africa -- 16. Reforming Resource-Abundant Transition Economies: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- 17. Reforming a Large Resource-Abundant Transition Economy: Russia -- 18. A Nordic Perspective on Natural Resource Abundance -- Part VI. Conclusions -- 19. Conclusions: Resource Abundance, Growth Collapses, and Policy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.