Wikipedia and the CIA factbook have excellent info. The Wikipedia article on Estonia is quite enjoyable to read. Estonia is a great example of a small, poor* country that the Soviets basically left as a pile of cr##, and after some stumbles, Estonia, via a basically free market / competetive economy, is on the road to doing well, despite few resources in the conventional sense. Obama should read about them and take it to heart, except that he never would.
*Actually, they weren’t poor. They have people with heart, freedom, a good direction, and a good work ethic. That’s really all it takes.