Referring to the original context of Dutch Disease, the term refers to the fears of de-industrialization that gripped the Netherlands as a result of the appreciation of the Dutch currency that followed the discovery of natural gas deposits. Expansion of petroleum exports in the 1960s not only...

Many countries have failed to use natural resource wealth to promote growth and development. They have been damaged by the volatility of revenues and have failed to save a sufficiently high proportion of their resource revenues and failed to make high-return investments to support...

Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Common Wealth Dividends (CWDs)? -- Chapter 2:. Thomas Paine and the Perennial Problem of Land Reform -- Chapter 3: CWDs as Applied to Natural Resources -- Chapter 4: CWD as Applied to Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 5: Common Wealth Dividends in Theory and Practice.