Robust GDP growth continues, and real growth for 2014 has been revised up by the authorities to 7.1 percent from an earlier estimate of 7.0 percent. Strong domestic demand, boosted by a construction boom...
Petroleum contracts are long and complex. Production sharing agreements, the type of contracts being signed in Cambodia, are no exception. However, they are important to the country's future economic and...
In March 1995, Munir P. Benjenk was interviewed on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur. Late in 1973 the OPEC [Organization of the...
The oil booms of 1973 and 1979 brought unprecedented income to many, previously poor oil-producing countries. What became of their new-found wealth? In this comparative study, the author assesses for the...
Since 1973 attempts to adjust the structure of the world economy to rapidly rising costs of energy have dominated all other economic issues. This paper argues that the energy transition is closer to completion...
This news release, dated May 4, 1978, announces the International Development Association (IDA), an affiliate of the World Bank, approved a 9 million dollars credit to help finance an oil palm project...