The idea of building up an endowment to replace shrinking natural resources did not exist.

建立基金以替代日益减少的自然资源，这样的想法还不存在。

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Resources endowment is the basis of economic growth of a country or a region.

资源禀赋是一个国家或地区的经济增长的基础。

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Later, the theory of factor endowment has been established, putting a nation's natural resources as a whole into duly consideration in foreign trade studies.

后来又出现了要素禀赋理论，将一个国家整体的资源优势纳入到国际贸易研究之中。

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And hopes that the EFSF's firepower could be increased to a trillion euros - the bare minimum deemed necessary - took a knock yesterday when its boss, Klaus Regling, said that the current turmoil in markets was limiting the EFSF's ability to raise what's needed from its current endowment of resources.

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Outside of oil and gas projects and a few specific infrastructure projects (ports like Jebel Ali and airports like Dubai), far less real economic development has happened in the oil-rich parts of the Arab world than would be expected based on their great endowment of human and natural resources.

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