But the combination of abundance and weak government almost never has a happy outcome in Africa.
Mr Yevkurov, a paratrooper, inherited a corrupt and weak government from his predecessor, a KGB general named Murat Zyazikov.
Experts blame that record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
So how do Americans plan ahead for an economic climate of weak government support, international labor competition, and technological substitution?
President Abdurrahman Wahid's democratically formed but weak government badly needs a success.
The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.
Meanwhile, Greece has lost none of its capacity to cause trouble, as a new, weak government tries to extract concessions from creditor nations.
That leaves Mr Spidla the option of trying to muddle through the next three years with a weak government in an ill-disciplined parliament.
One alternative is for increased government intervention in the market, coupled with increased tax revenues and spending cuts, further straining already weak government budgets.
Strife is getting more common in lower-middle income countries, and weak government is at least as big a predictor of violence as poverty itself.
In every case, they say they were fleeing not only the drought but also conflict between Somalia's weak government and the al-Shabab Islamist militant group.
Whoever wins this power struggle, unless and until Peronism unites under a new leader, or alternative political movements emerge, Argentina is likely to have a weak government.
At the same time, an expanded U.S. military role could fuel a public backlash against Yemen's already weak government and increase support for al Qaeda, experts have warned.
When member nations of the African Union meet this weekend, representatives hope to find a way to stabilize Somalia, where a weak government has beaten back Islamist forces with the help of Ethiopian troops.
With its big Army, weak government, and unpopular politicians, Iraq increasingly resembles the post-colonial states of Africa and the Arab world, which produced coup upon coup during the second half of the twentieth century.
Many local militias have been brought nominally under the government's command, providing security in places where the weak central government is unable to do so.
South Sudan's weak central government has announced an offensive, deploying some 12, 000 soldiers to discourage tribal raiding in Jonglei.
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The weak central government in Baghdad hasn't intervened so far, but Kurdish politicians know there will eventually be a clash.
They now threaten the weak interim government's current seat, north-west at Baidoa.
The militants had taken advantage of weak central government after a coup in March 2012 and the inability of Malian forces to secure territory.
Bosnia was split into two autonomous regions - joined by a relatively weak central government - under a US-brokered peace deal that ended the 1992-95 war.
But it's been difficult to stitch together a coalition of African countries willing or able to go to war on behalf of Mali's weak civilian government.
The deal split the Balkan nation along ethnic lines into two semi-autonomous parts linked by a weak central government and guided by a constitution that did not envisage a culture ministry.
It has 14 often competing and overlapping administrations, including a weak central government and a complete administration apiece for the Serb republic and the Croat-Bosniak (as Bosnian Muslims are now known) federation.
Attempts at reform had led to the overthrow of the Harold Wilson Labour government in 1970, and an anti-union bill put through by Heath led to the destruction of his majority in 1974 and its replacement by another weak Wilson government that tipped the balance of power still further in the direction of the unions.
Domestic demand is weak because the government and many householders are struggling with debts of their own.
The housing market which started the whole mess in America was still weak despite unprecedented government stimulus.
May is traditionally a weak month for government receipts, following income tax receipts that are received in April.
Exports remain weak and the government fears premature tightening could derail the recovery.
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So long as the flow of funds to private borrowers is weak, the government should easily find buyers for its debt.
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