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Published 28 January 2013 | viewed 1,960 times
On January 14, Deutsche Bank published their 2013 market outlook in which they identified several geopolitical hotspots to worry investors and businesses. They include a…
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Published 14 January 2013 | viewed 2,747 times
As the European Union mulls another year of economic stagnation and the United States a year of lacklustre and uncertain economic recovery, will emerging markets…
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Published 06 December 2012 | viewed 2,548 times
Egypt’s energy sector, specifically its electricity, oil and natural gas subsectors, is a large, important and promising part of the national economy. Egypt faces the…
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Published 28 November 2012 | viewed 2,112 times
In a momentous verdict last week, BP was ordered to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history for its role in the Deepwater Horizon…
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Published 25 November 2012 | viewed 2,131 times
Liberia is a nation rich with natural resources including iron ore, gold, diamonds, natural rubber, vast forest for logging and timber harvesting, and vast agriculture…
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Published 23 August 2012 | viewed 26,462 times
Since 1951, the Indian government has somehow managed to fail in every single attempt to reach its annual target of increasing the nation’s electricity production…
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Published 09 August 2012 | viewed 2,986 times
Resources should be a blessing, not a curse; yet contrary to common sense, resource-rich countries in Africa have tended to experience less economic growth in…
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Published 27 April 2012 | viewed 1,416 times
Argentina’s decision to nationalise YPF – a subsidiary of Spanish energy company Repsol – has been met by international disapproval; though the Argentine government insists…
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Published 30 December 2011 | viewed 3,111 times
The world’s major 3,000 corporations are responsible for a third of global environmental damage, but economists are divided in their views of how to stop…
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Published 03 August 2011 | viewed 1,921 times
With all the debate in the United States over raising its debt ceiling, politicians and lawmakers are once again fighting over national spending. Democrats are…
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Published 06 July 2011 | viewed 2,138 times
Socio-economic problems have erupted in Yemen as the petrol crisis enters into its fifth month with little to no end in sight.
The Yemeni oil…
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Published 23 May 2011 | viewed 858 times
In East China’s industrial province of Zhejiang there are 500,000 enterprises – and not enough electricity to run them all at the same time. Insiders…
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Published 19 May 2011 | viewed 2,965 times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani in London on May 8 to discuss Doha’s…
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Published 11 May 2011 | viewed 1,169 times
No sooner had we breathlessly reported April’s record highs for gold and silver, at over $1,500 and close to $50 per troy ounce respectively, than…
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Published 10 May 2011 | viewed 2,786 times
Iraq and Afghanistan sit near the top of a list of the world’s most corrupt nations despite years of occupation by Anglo-American forces and more…
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Published 06 May 2011 | viewed 3,227 times
Who says miracles can’t happen? After four straight days of steady decline, crude oil prices finally plummeted by nearly 9 percent on Thursday to US$99.80…
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Published 06 May 2011 | viewed 3,486 times
In a shocking report by Frederick Kaufman that has been featured on the Foreign Policy website, the role of Goldman Sachs and its Wall Street…
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Published 05 May 2011 | viewed 1,534 times
Betting on the future generally receives the stamp of immorality when elected officials and consumers come out on the losing end. President Barack Obama and…
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Published 12 April 2011 | viewed 2,558 times
Higher oil prices are usually good news for clean energy because they make costly technologies like solar and wind less daunting to investors.
But for…
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Published 08 April 2011 | viewed 2,878 times
The world may have no more than half a century of oil left at current rates of consumption, while surging demand from emerging markets threatens…