While it is easy to say that every country can do extraordinarily well if they have abundant natural resources, Norway is basically the only one that actually managed to profit from that on a country-wide scale. That being said, Norway is basically swimming in oil, no wonder they are doing well compared to similarly well build countries

Interesting and long article.

However I'm not a fan of the trend of starting reports with "so I sat down and started thinking about how I could write this article".

But that's unimportant in the grand scheme of things.