Sentences with phrase «with oil wealth»

In an economic game of crack - the whip, Dubai is at the end of the line — they don't have much energy production, but they have grandiose ideas that benefit if those with oil wealth decide to spend money nearby for fun, rather than abroad.

Faced with water scarcity and reliance on food imports — and flush with oil wealth that the nation knows can't last forever — Qatar sees science and a «knowledge - based economy» as the ways forward.

Minister of Petroleum Emmanuel Armah - Kofi Buah has given the assurance that bold steps have been taken to drive the oil, gas and power industry forward and emphasised Ghana was on its way to prosperity with its oil wealth.

Longer answer: OPEC was developed as a way for under - developed economies with oil wealth to fight back against the power of multinational corporations mostly from Britain and the U.S. Norway didn't have that problem, and so wasn't really concerned with the same issues of OPEC.

Not exact matches

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

From the carefully groomed, designer suit - clad media wealth manager, to the tweed jacket and signet ring of the chap who dealt with the landed gentry, to the oil wealth manager's keffiyeh, the private wealth managers were carefully selected to make the best possible connection with their clients.

JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.

Why is the Arab world convulsing with social and political unrest when triple digit oil prices should be bringing enormous wealth to the region?

Meanwhile, sovereign wealth funds in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are flush with cash from high oil prices and are on the lookout for attractively priced European assets.

Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..

The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces are decorated with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.

and would add if the same management structure hadn't lied to fans about how all this would allow us to compete with top teams in Europe with... with exception of PSG... are not driven by oil wealth or megalomanic owners... of course none of this has anything to do with the footballing errors consistently made by wenger and which if corrected would at least give us a BETTER shot at winning top trophies than has been the case over the last dozen or so years

Chelsea and Man City, with all the wealth at their disposal up to FFP were not able to guarantee victory all the time, and Man U, the richest club in England prior to the oil money influx, spent decades trying to find someone who could generate success.

Most state - owned companies — such as the oil giant Petrobras in Brazil, state - owned banks in India, and state - owned enterprises in China — are wasteful and corrupt of which I give ample evidence in my book, The Public Wealth of Nations (co-authored with Dag Detter).

When Libya was a poor desert economy prior to 1961, central planning and streamlined infrastructural budgets were not yet necessary; however, with the influx of oil wealth post-1961, federalism needed to be abandoned when the inefficiencies it fostered impeded the rapid development of Libya that would otherwise have been possible.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

Maitama, a former Minister of Solid Minerals in the sixties, said that as a former minister he is aware that Nigeria is endowed with the wealth of resources outside oil, saying the country has gold, diamond and other resources.

According to the report on Wednesday, Dangote lost $ 4.9 bn or one - third of his wealth as the combined effect of falling oil prices and the June devaluation of the naira pushed him to No. 112 on the billionaires» list with $ 10.4 bn.

«To sponsor the Ghana Premier league with capital injection of one million dollars each season, to remove Airport Taxes, to remove utility bills paid by university students living on campus, to increase and give Ghanaians high quality infrastructure nationwide, loans from Western World will be abolished, Woyome will pay back our money, continuation of Mahama projects and we will use our oil wealth income to clear all Ghana's debt.»

America is blessed with a wealth of natural resources; Citigroup has predicted that the U.S. could soon overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's largest oil producer.

Posting here primarily to document the stresses and constraints associated with North America's newfound oil and gas wealth (via Wunderground): Canadian National spokesman Louis - Antoine Paquin said 13 cars — four carrying petroleum crude oil and nine loaded with liquified petroleum gas — came off the tracks around 1 a.m.

When researchers went back to Crete, the half - starved WWII culture responsible for the creation of the «Mediterranean Diet», and Ancel Keys» ticket to wealth, they found that olive oil consumption was highly correlated with CVD.

Offering a wealth of health benefits coconut oil combines fatty acids with powerful medicinal properties.

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Donald Sutherland («Ordinary People») plays the cold, penny - pinching oil tycoon Getty who wields his wealth and power over the family with a cruel indifference.

Scott's early montages explaining Getty's accumulation of wealth and power (thanks to Saudi oil, among other things), intercut with the present - day (1973) kidnapping and family drama, give the first half of the film an energy that promises great rewards, a promise thereafter unfulfilled.

Trickle - down oil wealth and the spread of easily accessible auto financing are lifting sales, which rose by 40 percent in the first half of this year compared with the same period a year ago.

Included with the vehicle is wealth of documentation that includes Protect - O - Plate, Window Sticker, Broadcast Sheet, dealer invoice showing «Factory Stripe Delete» in Aspen and Gold color scheme, dealer prep sheet, registration cards, and maintenance records showing oil changes, tires and tuneups.

The new wealth of the Kingdom, in the cities beyond the mountains where there were wide highways and the oil wells with their networks of pipes, had not penetrated the Asir mountains.

Other funds with holdings in Canadian Oil Sands are managed by Deutsche Asset & Wealth, Franklin Advisers Inc. and CIBC to name a few.

At $ 1 trillion U.S. in assets, Norway's sovereign wealth fund made headlines in November 2017 with the news it would consider selling its oil and gas stocks over time.

This pairing of the pump jacks and the Times Square location merges a classic symbol of American oil production and wealth with the center of New York City commercial culture.

This juxtaposition of images provides insight into the consequences of the country's oscillating wealth during the late 1960s and»70s due to an oil windfall in 1973, with a subsequent sharp economic contraction creating discontent that contributed to the Iranian Revolution (1978 — 79).

5) From the tenor of your blog I assume you are a Republican and a rightwinger who supported Bush, Cheney and the other certifiable petro - nuts who took us into a war for oil (though I would not characterize Bush and Cheney and their sponsors and business allies as «nuts,» rather, shortsighted, greedy, concerned only with the accumulation of personal wealth).

There are signs that the movement is gaining momentum, especially with last week's announcement that Norwegian Sovereign Wealth (oil) Fund has divested from a total of 22 companies — one of the biggest divestment decisions to date.

Terrorism dovetails with this as their black market oil wealth should be the primary focus of deflating their influence.

The banks, oil trading companies, financial institutions, regulators, arms procurement companies, offshore financial centres and governments that were involved in this sage must ensure that the middlemen and government officials that personally enriched themselves with the wealth of the Angolan state must not be allowed to do so again.

As the region looks to preserve its main wealth of oil and gas, the development and implementation of renewable energy will continue to increase to cope with the region's escalating power demand.

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With the new cabinet so blatantly in favor of corporate wealth and expanded oil and gas development, climate change is one reality that is certain to be on the list of inconvenient facts to be denied, deleted from federal websites, and discouraged from being disseminated.

Additionally, with her wealth of experience working in the energy industry, particularly in matters related to the exploration, production and transmission of oil and natural gas, Ms. Genesen also joins Reed Smith's more than 100 - attorney global Energy & Natural Resources Group.

Railroad access from Chicago made the area a popular summer retreat for the barons of wealth in lumber, cattle, oil, steel, cement, manufacturing, and durable goods (e.g., Morton Salt, Wrigley Chewing Gum), with mansions and large homes such as Stone Manor and Black Point built on the lake from the 1850s, through the heyday of the Roaring 20s, and up...

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Instead, the slowdown of Middle Eastern capital into the U.S. may be a function of regional investors having less capital to invest with because of the drop in oil wealth, coupled with fewer opportunities to find good rates of return, Costello notes.

The fund, which was created in the 1990s to safeguard Norway's oil wealth for future generations, has warned that the outflows will affect its ability to deal with risks.