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- Covering oil – a reporter’s guide to energy and development
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February 27, 2008 15:30
For the vast majority of people in most resource-rich countries, natural wealth does not translate into prosperity, but instead leads to environmental and economic devastation, and hampers democratic reform. Only an informed public can hold leaders to account. Yet local reporting often overlooks the legal, economic, and environmental implications of resource extraction. This guide aims to encourage rigorous reporting on these issues by providing practical information.
- Kazakhstan - Country Economic Memorandum - Getting competitive, staying competitive : The challenge of managing Kazakhstan's oil boom
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November 26, 2007 17:44
Kazakhstan has made substantial progress in its economic transition, and faces a potentially bright future thanks to its oil wealth. The challenge is to increase the country's competitiveness, and expand the benefits of growth, while avoiding the economic and social risks typically associated with oil wealth.
- Kazakhstan eyes new oil export route via Caspian Sea
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on Kazakhstan’s action to bolster its oil export capacity to the West via the Caspian Sea in order to sustain its energy diversification strategy.
- Energy profits provide Kazakhstan with foreign-policy heft
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The author of the article supposes that Kazakhstan is expanding its foreign policy outlook, as energy profits transform the Central Asian state into an increasingly important creditor nation.
- Azerbaijan: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) still ready for Kazakh oil, despite new deal
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the statement of Azerbaijan’s industry and energy minister that regardless a recent pipeline deal between Russia, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, the country’s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is still available to transit Kazakh oil.
- Russia’s Central Asia energy strategy experiences a few setbacks
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on how Russia has experienced several setbacks in its ongoing efforts to secure its energy dominance in Central Asia. Both Uzbek and Tajik officials have taken steps of late to reduce Russia’s energy position in their respective countries.
- Aiming to Reduce Russian Role in Caspian, Azerbaijan Builds Economic Ties with Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the April trip of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to South Korea, which according to the author underscores Aliyev’s intent to exploit the growing oil & gas needs of China, South Korea, Japan and other nations to weaken Russia’s ability to use energy issues as a lever of geopolitical influence.
- GUAM Leaders Discuss Conflicts and Energy in Baku
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The analytical article analyses the outcomes of a meeting by the presidents of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and the Prime Minister of Moldova in Baku for a summit of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM. The participants discussed issues related to the conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh and ways of transporting Caspian energy resources to Europe through GUAM countries, bypassing Russia.
- Asymmetric fuel pricing in transition economies: The case of Moscow
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper finds out asymmetry in the fuel market of Moscow and analyzes the influence of companies' and market characteristics on asymmetric response.
- Implications of Possible Decline of World Oil Prices for the Russian Economy
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The key objective of the publication is the analysis of new challenges to and opportunities for the Russian economy which have arisen or can emerge as a result of high economic growth rates over the past few years.
- Policy Studies
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May 15, 2007 09:51
This issue was published under the general title "Oil Revenue Saving Funds: Experience of Alaska and Kazakhstan"
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