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Energy issues and challenges in emerging economies.(Introduction to the Symposium)(Essay)
June 1, 2009... The management of oil and gas revenues, which are volatile, unpredictable, and ultimately exhaustible, offers important opportunities, but can also greatly complicate economic policy making. In his introduction to the economic theory of the supply of oil, Banks emphasised that 'the world of...
Corruption and economic development in energy-rich economies.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION
Data limitations and the complexity of the oil and gas industry have impeded the efforts of researchers to study and uncover the links between the rents generated by oil revenues and high levels of corruption as well as the corruption-development link in energy-rich...
Using energy resources to diversify the economy: agricultural price distortions in Kazakhstan.(Symposium Paper)(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION
After becoming independent at the end of 1991, Eazakhstan went through a severe recession, which was prolonged by the 1998 Russian Crisis and only turned around in 1999. (1) In sharp contrast, in the first decade of the 21st century, the country has experienced rapid GDP...
Russia from bust to boom and back: oil price, Dutch disease and stabilisation fund.(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION
Russia is the largest neighbour of the enlarged European Union (EU). The economies of the EU and Russia are increasingly integrated through rising flows of goods, services, capita! and people between the two blocks. Russia also plays an important strategic role as a supplier...
Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo.(Report)
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION
Economists have often viewed social conflict as an outcome of competition to control natural resources (Hirshleifer, 1995) in contexts where collective action is costly or infeasible. Others have argued that such competition does not necessarily explain the existence of armed...