Big trading operations, lots of close relationships with the governments of resource rich countries, giant asset-intensive operations.
Certain resource rich Gulf States can, with the current high price of oil, afford to bathe the youth in financial largesse.
They're mostly resource rich, have low or manageable government debt when compared to the developed world, and are fast becoming the drivers of world GDP.
As a result, an unfair war for talent is taking place where resource rich companies and countries have an unmatched advantage in attracting and retaining the best talent from, sometimes, already talent-depleted nations and economies.
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During the recent commodities' boom, resource-rich countries have sought to escape the curse by pouring natural-resource income into sovereign-wealth funds (SWFs).
This will encourage more investment in resource-rich countries and level the playing field for business.
It's a complaint common to many resource-rich African nations: ordinary people don't benefit from that wealth.
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But resource-rich Australia also enjoyed the sort of luck that has seen it weather other crises.
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In most other resource-rich countries, as prices rise governments take increasing cuts of the upside.
The key choices facing entrepreneurs are far different than the prescriptions offered resource-rich companies.
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That in turn would help boost growth in these resource-rich countries in the region.
Over the past decade, China's trade has boomed with Afghanistan's resource-rich neighbors in Central Asia.
Brazil has been increasingly expanding its economic ties with resource-rich Africa as part of the so-called South-South cooperation.
They had also promised to "pay mercenaries with mining concessions" in resource-rich DR Congo, Mr Abrahams said, it reports.
The area is fraught with tension between rival claimants to its resource-rich seabed.
Ms. Alshanskaya and other critics say officials in the resource-rich country could take small steps, like helping to buy firewood.
The higher proportion of revenue going to resource-rich regions has necessarily reduced the funds available to other, less favoured areas.
Greenland's newly elected prime minister plans to seek royalties from companies as they set up exploitation activities in the resource-rich nation.
"It's unacceptable in a resource-rich country like the U.S. that we are seeing maternal- and pregnancy-related deaths trending upward, " she said.
Fifty years of European and American aid have not succeeded in bringing much prosperity to Africa and other poor but resource-rich places.
Around 60m Europeans set sail for the resource-rich and labour-scarce Americas in the century following 1820, three-fifths of them to the United States.
Economists warn that resource-rich Indonesia is especially vulnerable to falling commodity prices, which could also pull money out of the pockets of mining workers.
As well, Chinese involvement in the Kazak oil industry effectvely ties Beijing into a cooperative rather than overbearing relationship with its sparsely-populated, resource-rich neighbor.
Indonesian officials detailed additional plans to tax mineral exports from the resource-rich country, compounding worries that government policies could slow the flow of investment.
Mining drives the Mongolian boom, and Dagvadorj is in the thick of it, with numerous licenses for coal, rare earths and other resource-rich properties.
Wahid's administration is already struggling to quell resurgent separatist movements in the resource-rich provinces of Papua and Aceh and to combat a general drift toward lawlessness.
Resource-rich areas such as Russia, Indonesia and Australia, and Asian services capitals like Hong Kong and Japan were also cited as top draws for their investments.
At the same time, big infrastructure projects, another key driver of China's growth, have driven up demand for raw materials from resource-rich countries such as Indonesia.
Resource-rich countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Gabon were singled out as making less progress in combating poverty than other African countries with fewer natural resources.
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Mr Bush got far more votes from the resource-rich states of the south and west than he did from Whitman country, the environmentally-sensitive states of the north-east.
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