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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Oil revenues"”.
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Spending oil wealth : a study of Iran's strategies for allocating oil revenues to national development and foreign policy goals
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975
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Corruption in Oil Revenue Distribution and Conflict in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
… charges totaling $22 trillion dollars related to oil revenues. In Bayelsa State, a Nigerian state that produces oil, officials have been marked with high level corruption in oil revenue. In particular, the state faces constant conflicts among the government, multinational oil corporations, and the …
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Why Oil Production has a Negative Impact on Socioeconomic Development in Chad?
"Oil production in Chad is considered one of the most important Sub-Saharan investments in Africa. In 2000, the World Bank agreed to finance oil production under the condition that oil revenues would be invested in socioeconomic development projects. Furthermore, the World Bank emphasized that oil …
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The impact of fluctuations in the international oil markets on the Iraqi economy
This study examined the impact of oil price shocks on economic growth in oil-exporting countries, including Iraq. As the fourth-largest exporter of crude oil, Iraq's economy faces the challenge of being highly dependent on oil revenues, which places the economy under the influence of fluctuations …
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Oil and exchange rate in Nigeria: a case of Dutch Disease
… The study assesses the impact of expanding oil revenues on non-oil sectors of the Nigerian economy, taking the agricultural sector as the non-tradable sector.
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The Emerging Impacts of Tourism on The Economy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Oil and Tourism
<p>Saudi Arabia was heavily dependent on oil, which caused an economic crisis due to the collapse of global oil prices. In 2016, the Saudi government launched Vision 2030 to diversify the Saudi economy and avoid dependence on oil revenues. One aim of Vision 2030 is to initiate numerous tourism …
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The Estimation of Central Government Revenues in Indonesia
… by declining price movements in the world oil market since 1982. Indonesia is highly dependent on oil revenues in its budget. Its development efforts are heavily affected by these declining oil yields.
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The education and training of accounting technicians in the Sultanate of Oman : The accounting diploma program at Sultan Qaboos University
… and subsequent commercial exploitation of oil in the Arabian Gulf region has brought profound and far-reaching change to the peoples of the area. What has happened has been nothing short of a transformation from desert sheikdoms into modem nation states;The Sultanate of Oman is one of those …
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Optimal investment in an oil-based economy. Theoretical and Empirical Study of a Ramsey-Type Model for Libya.
In a developing oil-based economy like Libya the availability of finance is largely affected by the availability of oil revenues which are subjected to disturbances and shocks. Therefore, the decision to save and invest a certain ratio of the country's aggregate output is, to large extent, …
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Economic interdependence of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan through oil and labor
… of this study is to investigate the impact of oil price fluctuations and oil revenues on the main macroeconomic variables in oil based labor importing economies and labor exporting economies, represented by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan respectively. Numerous academic studies have addressed the …
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An analysis of the role of the oil sector in the Iraqi economy, 1953-75, and an appraisal of the petrochemical industry as a strategy for achieving future self-sustained development.
… Iraqi economy has been excessively dependent on oil revenues. This strategy has been insufficient to meet the requirements for the overall development of the economy. A major reason has been the neglect of integrating the oil sector within the rest of the economy. As a result the significant …
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The Lure of the West : analyzing the domination of Western firms in the Gulf Region
… of transformations. The discovery of oil during the mid 20th century transformed countries with in the region from small, significantly poor cities that depended merely on pearling and trade as a source of income, to being marked today as the wealthiest countries in the world. The …
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An investigation of the relationship between higher education and the labour market in Kuwait
… on its hydrocarbon resources, mainly crude oil, and a large proportion of its economic activities are dependent on foreign labour. There is a need for the development of a national workforce to meet the increasing demand for an economy that is sustainable beyond the current dependence on oil …
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An empirical study of the key knowledge economy factors for sustainable economic development in Oman
Heavy economic dependence on oil revenues has come under scrutiny in most oil producing countries, including the Sultanate of Oman. The main catalysts for this have been the gradual decline of oil production, depletion of oil reserves, fluctuations in oil price and high rates of population growth …
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Impact of oil revenue volatility on the real exchange rate and the structure of economy: Empirical evidence of “Dutch disease” in Iraq
… in a particular export commodity sector (i.e., oil) affects relative price of non-tradable goods against tradable goods, the real exchange rate and competitiveness in the rest of the economy: This problem has been analysed in the early stage by (Corden and Neary 1982) with the so-called …
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Challenges of nation building in the 21st Century Africa : Experiences from South Sudan, 2011-2013
… disputes remain, including the division of oil revenues, as 75% of all the former Sudan's oil reserves are in South Sudan. This research will identify factors which have led to the ongoing conflicts in South Sudan with the hope of coming up with suggestions on how the conflict can be …
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Oil Price Movements and Equity Returns: Evidence from the GCC Countries
<p>This study examines to what extent how oil movements differently affect equity returns in general and sectoral levels of the GCC countries stock markets. Modeling the equity returns volatility requires using GARCH-type models. These models help to explore the pronounced differences of the …
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Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of oil resources and economic and political institutional quality on the economic performance of Iran. To this end, I examine four related themes. First and foremost, I provide a detailed picture of the economic structure of Iran and compare its …
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Essays on Fertility and the Economy in Venezuela
… it looks at the extreme fluctuations in oil revenues, Venezuela's main source of income, in the 1970s and their impact on fertility. It uses the 1998 National Survey of Population and Family collected in Venezuela by The Central Office of Statistics and Information to estimate a Poisson …
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Ghana 'rising'?: A socioeconomic snapshot of Ghana's place in the 'Africa rising' narrative
… pathway, based primarily on commodities and oil revenues, is likely to be unsustainable in the long-term, and the slow rate of structural change, especially in manufacturing, means that growth so far has not been sufficiently inclusive or equitable to benefit the majority of the population. …
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