The theme of the final paper is to explore the curse of resources, and the role and importance of resources for economic development. Resources are all that have a particular benefit, and something that we assign the value most often expressed in money. We divide natural resources into renewable, non-renewable, biotic, non-biotic and supplies. Human capital also represents the resources of an organization or state. Proper use of resources can provide significant economic benefits for a country, but excess natural resources do not guarantee success, it can also lead to a certain collapse of a country's economy, and the phenomenon where abundance of resources actually hinders economic growth is called the resource curse. Resource curse can be avoided through political stability in the country, effective government, absence of corruption, etc. In the final paper, examples of Venezuela, Nigeria and Japan were used to create a clearer picture of the phenomenon of resource curse and the impact of resources on the economy. Venezuela and Nigeria are examples of countries where the phenomenon of resource curse is actually present, in the midst of their poor quality oil policy. Japan is one technological country that, for example, unlike Venezuela and Nigeria, does not have its own oil and imports huge quantities, especially from the Middle East. Japan is abundant in numerous forests and rich aquatic life and under sea minerals. Analyzes have shown that timber is high quality in Japanese forests and can represent a resource sector that can be built in the future to have positive effects on the entire Japanese economy.