Showing posts with label resource curse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resource curse. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Philippine Politics: South Korean War Jets Means Bigger Taxes and More Financial Repression

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From Today’s Inquirer headlines Move over. The big boys are coming. President Benigno Aquino III said the Philippines was close to ...
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Friday, December 07, 2012

Why the Shale Gas Revolution will go on…

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...because the benefits enormously outweigh the costs. Prolific author Matt Ridley writing at the UK Telegraph enumerates them 1. ...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Natural-Shale Gas Revolution Spreads to Israel

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The natural-shale gas boom spreads to Israel. Reports the Financial Times (hat tip Carpe Diem’s Professor Mark Perry ) With reserves...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Resource Curse: Rare Earths bankroll North Korea’s Despotism

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Abundance of natural resources can serve as deterrent to economic development, a phenomenon which has widely been known as the resource curs...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Will Soaring Agricultural Commodity Prices Bring about Stagflation to Asia?

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Over the past few weeks, US dollar prices of key agricultural commodities have soared. Prices of corn, wheat and grains have reached the...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Canadians Have Overtaken Americans in Wealth

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From the USNews.com For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a repo...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Philippine Resource Curse: The Mindanao Security Problem

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Most of the people don’t realize that the abundance of natural resources can pose as an impediment rather than a blessing for a political ec...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Saudi’s Welfare State In Jeopardy

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The resource curse which has spawned Saudi Arabia’s welfare economy seems in jeopardy. From the Business Insider , The share of Saudi...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Resource Curse: Iraq’s Property Bubble

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Excess cash from Iraq’s oil wealth have led to massive spending on the property sector. The New York Times observes , (bold highlights min...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Singaporization’ of Georgia: The Economic Freedom Model

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A fundamental pillar for the deepening of the global wealth convergence trend is that developing or emerging markets are likely to loosen up...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Geopolitics of Oil and Russia’s Knowledge Economy

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Writes the Institutional Investor at the Minyanville All it would take for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime to begin to crumbl...