Investing the proceeds of the oil bonanza

This BBC article focuses on the ways in which the Brazilian government is seeking to use the revenue from oil exports to boost the economy’s long run economic growth potential and reducing poverty. There is a neat line in here about the importance of value added - from moving away from dependence on exporting crude oil to selling derivatives of oil that carry a higher value in world markets. Yet another country looks poised to establish a sovereign wealth fund to manage some of the assets that come from selling black gold to the rest of the world.

Investment in Energy Infrastructure [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Cyclical and Structural Economic Issues Facing the UK [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Current Account of the Balance of Payments [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Model answer for revision data question [9 May 2012]
Made in China - but not quite so cheaply…... [7 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Trade and Balance of Payments Glossary [5 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Aggregate Demand Glossary [5 May 2012]
Macro Revision - Key Statistics on the UK Economy [4 May 2012]
Tullow Oil and African Development [25 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities - Deepwater Horizon 2 Years On [21 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazilian Growth and Sustainability [12 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The UK Balance of Payments in 2011 [4 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Cartels [31 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Brazilian coffee buffer stock hit by falling prices [29 Mar 2012]
George Buckley at the Millfield Economics Society [28 Mar 2012]
Beyond the Bike - Monetary Policy in Africa [28 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Inequality - The Rise of Fuel Poverty [15 Mar 2012]
Evidence of the dangers of protectionism [9 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Policies to Drive Economic Recovery [9 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro - Labour Migration and the Economy [5 Mar 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Sovereign Wealth Funds [4 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Might Oil Prices Bring another Recession? [4 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Dash for Gas in Mozambique [17 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Is the UK Economy Turning a Corner? [15 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: China’s Trade Engine is Spluttering [10 Feb 2012]
Competitiveness [8 Feb 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Winning the War on Deforestation [5 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Growth and Development - Some Indicators [30 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Comparative Advantage [27 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Focus on China - Trade and Growth [27 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Focus on India - Economic Growth [24 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Exporting to the Booming Chinese Economy [23 Jan 2012]
Video Resources on Rising Inequality [23 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Time to Re-Boot the British Economy [14 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Competitive Advantage in Trade (Some Videos) [12 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: UK Trade Patterns [11 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
2011 in Review - The US Economy [27 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Brazil Overtakes UK in Economic Size [26 Dec 2011]
Great Blog to Follow - Joseph Rowntree Foundation [22 Dec 2011]
Economics of Deforestation [20 Dec 2011]
Cartoon on inequality - perfect for explaining analysis and evaluation! [16 Nov 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
Tour of the US income distribution – “The L Curve” [25 Oct 2011]
Can the “invisible hand” solve Africa’s poverty? [13 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Can Exports Drive a Recovery? [13 Oct 2011]
Using Timetric in the Classroom [27 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: IMF Flags up Risks of Double Dip [20 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Macroeconomic policy objectives [16 Sep 2011]
Study Note - Introduction to GDP [15 Sep 2011]
Study Note - The Circular Flow of Income [15 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Income and Wealth in the UK [12 Sep 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Progress towards Millennium Goals [12 Sep 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Economics of Volatile Corn Prices [12 Jul 2011]
Unit 3 Micro: Motorsport Valley and External Economies of Scale [12 Jul 2011]
Zondle Game: 10 Question Quiz about OPEC [11 Jul 2011]
UK firms wake up to Brazilian opportunities [21 Jun 2011]
Do you agree that the government should provide support to the UK car industry? [12 Jun 2011]
Development Econ: Wealth and Inequality in China [10 Jun 2011]
Invisible Exports - Originating Journalist is remembered [27 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Inflation [24 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Recession [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: High and Low Marginal Cost Products [19 May 2011]
EU Economics: Comparing the UK with Europe [14 May 2011]
UK Economy Update: What Mervyn Said [11 May 2011]
AS Micro: What´s really behind the oil price rise? [10 May 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: Keynesian Economics [28 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: Importance of Elasticity of Supply [23 Apr 2011]
Rise in investment could kick start recovery [18 Apr 2011]
AS Micro: The volatile price of crude oil [9 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Aggregate Supply Shock [6 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term:  Balance of Payments [6 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Bubble [4 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Banana Prices [1 Apr 2011]
The Scale of Remittances [1 Apr 2011]
OPEC oil revenues set to surge above $1 trillion in 2011 [30 Mar 2011]
Pacific Peso Reaches 29 Year High! [30 Mar 2011]
Progress towards low carbon economic growth [18 Mar 2011]
Timetric: UK Balance of Trade with China [13 Mar 2011]
Focus on Japan - Human Catastrophe, Economic Risks [13 Mar 2011]
Timetric: UK Balance of Trade in Oil [6 Mar 2011]
Timetric: Trade Balance in Manufactured Goods [4 Mar 2011]
The US-China Trade Deficit [14 Feb 2011]
Mo Tanweer on Global Currency Wars [10 Feb 2011]
Balance of Payments Data - Free Chart Download [9 Feb 2011]
James Dyson on Innovation [1 Feb 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the rise in VAT harm the UK’s economic performance? [17 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Does the UK economy achieve a trade surplus in anything? [6 Jan 2011]
Chinese exports mini-fact [4 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Why might Europe’s weaker economies struggle to grow in the next few years? [2 Jan 2011]
China limits rare earth exports [30 Dec 2010]
EU Economics: EU Economy in Charts Jan 2011 [29 Dec 2010]
Ghana becomes a producer of crude oil [15 Dec 2010]
Tacit collusion between oil producers and consumers? [12 Dec 2010]
OCR A2 Economics F585 (Feb 2011) - Price Volatility [8 Dec 2010]
OCR A2 Economics F585 (Feb 2011) - Suggested Reading [7 Dec 2010]
Why is the UK helping Ireland? [22 Nov 2010]

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