How are events surrounding the latest Iraq war shaping the future global political economy of oil? The saliency of Iraq’s oil resources suggests a trend towards intensified great-power competition to dominate energy-rich provinces and transportation corridors. Yet, the nature of the oil trade, Iraq’s insurrection, and Sino-American economic interdependence indicate barriers to unilateral attemp...

Soy is a legume and has been successfully cultivated around the world. Today, the world’s top producers of soy are the United States, Brazil, Argentina, China and India. According Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), the Brazil is responsible for some 28 percent of the world's soybean production, with the estimate of a production of 57 million tons. The Brazil is the worl...

This paper develops and simulates a dynamic general equilibrium macroeconomic model to analyze the likely impact of oil production and revenue rehabilitation on the Libyan economy, under different government fiscal policy responses. The model is ideally appropriate to analyze macroeconomic issues in oil-producing developing countries. In particular, it is capable of incorporating alternative go...

Hardly a day passes without news about violent acts from the Niger Delta appearing on the headlines of local and international newspapers, or news broadcast media. Such reports vividly document incidents of violence—clashes between rival armed groups, and between militias and government troops, killings, sabotage of oil pipelines and installations, and a thriving transnational trade in stolen o...

Indonesia is a granary for palm oil, the largest producer of crude oil (CPO) in world still faced with problem scarcity, soaring cooking prices. The Role and Functions Ministry Trade Republic Overcoming High Scarcity Cooking Oil Indonesia.
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Natural crude-oil seepages, together with the oil released into seawater as a consequence of oil exploration/production/transportation activities, and operational discharges from tankers (i.e., oil dumped during cleaning actions) represent the main sources of sea oil pollution. Satellite remote sensing can be a useful tool for the management of such types of marine hazards, namely oil spills, m...

gas emissions would be instituted and emission credits would be sold to, and then traded among, emitters. Part of the revenue from the sold credits would go to investments in renewable energy, though it's not clear what would happen to the rest. A so-called 'Gang of 15', comprising senators from states that depend on coal-fired power plants for energy, is especially opposed to Obama's system be...

This study investigates an adjustment process in the bilateral trade balances of five countries within the Caribbean, with their largest trading partner, namely the United States. Unlike previous studies, this study controls for oil prices which play a vital role in the countries’ trade balances. A panel econometric technique was utilized using annual data over the period 19802012. Analysis of ...