-- Pratical information for conducting business -- Important laws and regulations affecting business -- Oil

Oil Prices and Conflicts 17 The New Environment: Lower Oil Prices 17 Fiscal Consolidation and Conflict

/ Zuozhuo Zhao, Zhihai Zhang -- Optimizing oil production / Yixiao Huang, Lei Zhao, Simin Huang -- Ways of

under severe economic strains. This is particularly the case for oil exporters whose near-term prospects

1. MENAP Oil Exporters: Adjustment to Cheaper Oil Continuing -- 2. MENAP Oil Importers: Striving to

oil and gas boom in the United States / Benjamin Hunt, Dirk Muir, and Martin Sommer -- Canada

oil -- 6. The resource blessing -- 7. Oil curse or monarchical exceptionalism? -- 8. Conclusions.

sectors, like agriculture and manufacturing. It is also asked how oil-exporting countries can strengthen

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