“…Historically, many of the most advanced countries in the world today appeared to benefit in this way. More recently, however, less developed countries that have such resources do not appear to have developed in the same way (Di John, 2011) and there is empirical evidence to suggest that resource-rich developing countries have lower per capita income (Auty, 2007), "lower growth rates, lower levels of human development, and more inequality and poverty (Bulte, Damania, & Deacon, 2005;Gylfason, 2001;Sachs & Warner, 1995) " (Kolstad, Wiig, & Williams, 2009, p.954). Pegg (2010) highlights "five different dimensions" of the resource curse literature and these can be summarised as:…”