Q2 «Is the domestic sale of fossil fuel products
in oil exporting countries at the cost of production but below international market prices a subsidy for fossil fuels, like the IMF authors assume?»
Kuwait's deputy foreign minister Khaled Jarallah
said oil exporting countries must freeze production and the market could not support a production increase from Iran, state news agency KUNA reported on Continue Reading
Well, with the
global oil exporting countries on track to consuming all the oil they produce by 2025 - 2030 the rest of the world will be back in the dark ages well before we get an ice - free Arctic.
A number
of oil exporting countries have suggested a six - month extension to the oil supply cut deal agreed by OPEC countries and non-OPEC crude producers, Iraqi oil minister Jabar al - Luaibi Continue Reading
Oil exporting countries could be next to devalue their currencies after Kazakhstan and Vietnam follow China's move, putting global markets on edge.
«The sharp decline in oil prices represents a formidable shock on
the oil exporting countries of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in view of their strong reliance on oil receipts for fiscal and external revenues,» an IMF spokeswoman said in a statement.
That doesn't mean that there are no subsidies in the US and Europe, but most of them are in fact concentrated in oil rich,
oil exporting countries.
However, it has also drastically reduced the revenues of
oil exporting countries, whose governments rely heavily on oil and gas royalties to finance budgets and loan repayments.