Where has the oil wealth gone? Chávez s social programs were the biggest beneficiaries.

Riding on record high energy prices and raw material exports, in January 2007 Russia became the world s tenth largest economy.

The current oil rush in West Africa is a perfect illustration of the problem.

In the context of the new Latin American left, Ortega resembles a shoddy imitation of Fidel Castro without the oil wealth of Hugo Chávez.

34. Petroleum constitutes the major source of material wealth in the region, which is also a major supplier of oil to the world.

He has engaged in blatant checkbook diplomacy by giving away, with little to show for it, Venezuela s oil resources to countries like Cuba.

Petroleum products

Lula s government has thought long and hard about how to manage the oil wealth, and has devised a unique program.

Non oil exports

Increased production and oil revenues

(33) Pet. and pet. products

Non oil export promotion

Payments for petroleum products

That's not wealth creation. It's wealth redistribution.

Nobel invested in these and amassed great wealth through the development of these new oil regions.

So, wealth how can a bat possibly bring us wealth?

The Golden Haves

Livestock 300,000 530,847 220,000

Wealth. Money.

Privatization. Wealth.

The committee must enact a new hydrocarbon law that guarantees each of Iraq s factions a fair share of the country s oil wealth, which accounts for 97 of total export revenue.

Audit of contracts for petroleum products

(g) GDP per capita rose from LD 2,416 in 1998 to LD 2,433 in 1999, an increase of 7 per cent.

the Supply and Shipping of Oil and

SHIPPING OF OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TO SOUTH AFRICA

Among the political benchmarks are provincial elections, enactment of an oil law that distributes oil wealth in a way that benefits the Sunnis, and reform of the de Baathifcation policy, which has been so costly to those who worked in the Iraqi government under Saddam.

Improved livestock

2. Livestock

That's real wealth.

Wealth and prosperity. Alleluia!

I'm the King of Excess.

Fame. Popularity.

Not the brass?

So they decided to call it oil sands.

Some traditional leaders, academics, representatives of civil society groups, and students, on the other hand, were more worried about whether the country s new oil wealth would benefit ordinary people.

The current oil rush in West Africa is a perfect illustration of the problem. Instead of being an asset, oil has become a liability that generates poverty, corruption, ethnic conflict, and ecological disaster.

61 194. Oil slick on Lebanese shores

62 188. Oil slick on Lebanese shores

2. Prohibition of the export or sale of petroleum or petroleum products.

Oil sand is not a long term solution.

Those Fickle Sovereign Wealth Funds

And down here, an axis for wealth

By creating wealth?

I was heading for a fortune.

It's not only natural wealth, it's not only tax resources, it's also people, right.