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Once in power, oil-rich governments are deadly hard to dislodge. They stick around by spending their vast public resources to buy out or repress their political opponents. Statistically, it is far less probably that an authoritarian oil country will transition to democracy than that a resource-poor autocracy will. Oil-rich governments spend two to 10 times more on their militaries than countries without oil, and are more prone to go to war. Most oil exporting countries that do not have strong democratic institutions before they
start exporting crude inevitably create an inhospitable environment for democracy. - The Devil’s Excrement/Moises Naim/Foreign Policy/Sept-Oct.2009.
Petroleumworld News 09/23/09
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