Uganda will soon be exporting oil: an energy economist outlines 3 keys to success
Uganda needs to focus on production sharing, infrastructure development and export timing.
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Why gold prices go up and down – five charts
Since the demise of the gold standard in the early 1970s, the precious metal has gone through four distinct phases.
Taxing financial winners from coronavirus to pay for the crisis – lessons from WW1
Financial winners in WWI were taxed on their ‘excess profits’ to help pay for the costs of the war on other parts of the economy.
Price caps on groceries are not the answer to the UK’s inflation problem
Rishi Sunak is proposing to introduce voluntary caps for staples like milk and bread.
Phasing out oil can offer a better life for many
An EU ban on Russian oil imports should encourage countries to burn less of it.
Understanding the rollercoaster ride of oil prices
Oil prices have little to do with supply or demand or even economic forces. Instead, it’s all about politics.
The Soviet Union is dead! Long live the Russian economic union
Plummeting oil prices, conflict over Ukraine and the West’s imposition of sanctions have contrived to send the Russian economy into a tailspin. But it is not just Russia that is suffering – the economic…
Some countries in Asia are rationing energy – why they’ve been hit hardest by the crisis in the Gulf
The current energy market disruption has exposed structural vulnerabilities in Asia’s energy systems.
The 1970s inflation crisis shaped modern central bank independence. Now it’s under populist threat – podcast
Political economist Cristina Bodea talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how central bank independence became the global norm for economic governance.
Why Albertans are seeking a referendum on separation from Canada
Alberta is not the only place in the world where questions of self-determination are live.
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