早期许多经济学家认为,丰富的自然资源特别是矿产资源是经济增长的重要引擎。但众多自然资源丰裕的经济体却没有实现快速经济发展,使“资源诅咒”命题成为20世纪90年代以来发展经济学的一个研究热点。我国民族地区资源分布相对密集,森林资源、农牧业资源、能源、矿产资源等在全国都占有举足轻重的地位。其中,能源和矿产资源一直是其经济发展的比较优势,部分资源富集区凭借资源开发实现经济快速增长,但更多的区域反而陷入产业低级化恶性循环的怪圈。分析民族地区资源禀赋对其经济增长的作用机理,破解“富饶的贫困”悖论以实现其资源优势向经济优势转化,成为亟待解决的课题。大连民族学院杨玉文在教育部人文社会科学基金资助下 Many early economists believed that rich natural resources, especially mineral resources, are important engines of economic growth. However, many economies with abundant natural resources have not achieved rapid economic growth, making the “resource curse” proposition a hot research topic in development economics since the 1990s. The distribution of resources in ethnic areas in China is relatively intensive, and forest resources, agriculture and animal husbandry resources, energy resources and mineral resources all occupy a pivotal position in the whole country. Among them, energy and mineral resources have always been the comparative advantages of their economic development. Some resource-rich areas have achieved rapid economic growth by exploiting resources. However, more areas have plunged into a vicious circle of a low-level circulation of industries. Analysis of the mechanism of resource endowment in ethnic areas on its economic growth and the solution to the paradox of “rich poverty” in order to transform its resource advantages into economic advantages have become urgent topics to be solved. Yang Yuwen of Dalian Nationalities University is supported by the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education