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Slides: Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program (Efd), Rich Haut Oct 2009

Slides: Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program (Efd), Rich Haut

Best Practices for Community and Environmental Protection (October 14)

Presenter: Rich Haut, Houston Advanced Research Center

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Evaluating Stabilization Clauses In Venezuela's Strategic Association Agreements For Heavy-Crude Extraction In The Orinoco Belt: The Return Of A Forgotten Contractual Risk Reduction Mechanism For The Petroleum Industry, Thomas J. Pate Jan 2009

Evaluating Stabilization Clauses In Venezuela's Strategic Association Agreements For Heavy-Crude Extraction In The Orinoco Belt: The Return Of A Forgotten Contractual Risk Reduction Mechanism For The Petroleum Industry, Thomas J. Pate

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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Metals Or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Spurt, Laura Nyantung Beny, Lisa D. Cook Jan 2009

Metals Or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Spurt, Laura Nyantung Beny, Lisa D. Cook

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Explanations for Africa's poor long-run growth performance have varied over time. The theories examined include geography (Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew Warner 1997); institutions (William Easterly and Ross Levine 1997; Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson 2001, 2002; Nathan Nunn 2007, 2008); health (David Bloom and Sachs 1998; Gregory N. Price 2003); and economic dependency (William Darity 1982). More recently, economists have attempted to explain what The Economist has called Africa's new "period of unparalleled economic success" (The Economist 2008a, 33). Average annual real GDP growth was 1.8 percent between 1980 and 1989 and increased to 4.4 percent between …