Christine Ebrahim-Zadeh. Back to Basics – Dutch Disease: Too much wealth managed unwisely. Finance and Development, a quarterly magazine of the IMF, março de 2003, volume 40, n°1. "This syndrome has come to be known as "Dutch disease". Although the disease is generally associated with a natural resource discovery, it can occur from any development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency, including a sharp surge in natural resource prices, foreign assistance, and foreign direct investment."