Usually means: Economic decline from resource reliance.
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  1. Dutch disease: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Dutch disease: Wiktionary
  3. dutch disease: Dictionary.com
  4. Dutch Disease, Dutch disease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Dutch disease: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  6. Dutch disease: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Dutch disease: Moneyterms
  3. Dutch disease: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. Dutch Disease: Investopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dutch disease)

noun:  (economics) An increase in the value derived from the natural-resources sector of the economy, leading to a rise in the valuation of the currency increasingly based on the natural-resources sector, and thus causing a deterioration in the manufacturing sector by making the manufactured goods less competitive in the export marketplace compared to those manufactured by economies with lower valuation currencies, because they are relatively more expensive.
noun:  (dated, chiefly US) Hollanditis.
noun:  Dutch elm disease.

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