Others preferred cash dividends on efficiency grounds, believing that individuals would be better able to make good use of oil revenues than government. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Despite making fiscal changes to reduce the national budget's dependence on oil revenues, he may push for new measures to improve his chances in the country's 2018 presidential elections. (tradeready.ca)
By coincidence, $ 9 billion is just short of the amount transferred from north to south in oil revenues since 2005. (globalwitness.org)