In addition, there should be a windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies.

While the sharp rise in oil prices during 2004 led to windfall revenues for oil exporting countries, its impact on the global economy was limited.

A well designed tax on oil would also reduce demand, thereby lowering the potential for windfall profits for those who rule or own the ground over the oil deposits.

Yet, the foreign oil companies get 82 of the increase in the case of oil, this would amount to a windfall for them of 32 a barrel or more.

Finally, high oil prices in the past 12 months provided an unexpectedly large windfall to the Iraqi budget, allowing for the financing of other sectors without slighting the oil industry.

As a result, the price boom is boosting windfall profits for the owners of oil deposits rather than improving countries' public finances.

Latin America s Commodity Windfall

Never mind that high demand drives up oil prices, creating a windfall for many in the Middle East who are not among America s friends.

In a growth mechanism where the external oil windfall component weakens, the internal component, which is dependent on higher productivity, technology and an adequate articulation between physical and human capital, would be best employed in offsetting the fall in oil rents.

The Soviet system left behind another windfall for naturalists.

Rather than subsidizing the price in the domestic oil market (and thus giving domestic manufacturers and consumers an incentive to use too much oil), it would make far better sense to let the domestic price rise to the international price and distribute the windfall profits from foreign oil assets to the population.

Even the United States has imposed a windfall profits tax.

Some people see in Chavez an innovative statesman who has seized an almost magical moment the windfall Venezuela has received from today s sky high oil prices to change the rules of the game in his country.

Of course, any windfall to borrowers has to come from someone else s wealth.

While there is a tendency to overrate the impact of the oil windfall on current growth, analyses based on long term trends suggest that the economies of the ESCWA member countries have performed well below their potential since the early 1980s.

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First, high commodity prices yield windfall profits for the region s leading producers of raw materials.

But there is a simple answer renegotiate if that is impossible, impose a windfall profit tax.

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Historically, fiscal profligacy tends to take hold at times like these, with windfall revenues wasted on extravagant public projects.

But the iron ore companies have gotten a windfall gain as iron ore prices have soared (nearly doubling since 2007).

Yet they were not subject to windfall profit taxation, nor have policymakers sufficiently altered structural incentives that encourage excessive risk taking.

They no longer dwell on impending climate doom, but on the economic windfall that will result from embracing the green economy.

But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.

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In the meantime, the public should be cautious of politicians claims that deploying today s inefficient, expensive technology will result in windfall benefits at no cost.

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Yet the absence of any such growth windfall in a still sluggish US economy has unmasked QE as little more than a yield seeking liquidity foil.

Oil exporting countries, however, were currently facing oil capacity constraints and reduced oil refining capability.

To determine what should be done with this windfall, it is important to know whether the increase in commodity prices is likely to be permanent or transitory.

Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long term growth President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions. As a result, Putin s Russia appears headed for the Latin American model of self inflicted stagflation.

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For example, formerly communist countries earned emission credits at zero cost on the heavy industries that they had to shut down and reaped windfall profits by selling them.

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Indeed, top oil producers are joining the top oil consumers with annual oil consumption growth rates above 5 .

This portion of crude oil is often referred to as heavy gas oil or vacuum gas oil (HVGO).

Although oil production performances varied, all ESCWA oil exporting countries have experienced a boost in oil export revenue.

Flooding global markets with Canadian oil would constrain global oil prices.

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