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The British North Sea: The Importance Of And Factors Affecting Tax Revenue From Oil Production
Hill, Mark T 1974- - 2003
The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power....
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On measuring wealth: A case study on the state of Queensland
Asafu-Adjaye, J.; Brown, R. P.; Straton, A. - 2005
In order for policy makers to plan effectively for sustainable development, there is a need for measures of welfare that consider changes in the natural capital stock. Current measures based on conventional national accounting are flawed because they are based solely on flow measures and do not...
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The Role and Extent of Economic Rent in Distribution Contracts.
Lo, Ho Fu Des - 2008
This dissertation is composed of five chapters that investigate the extent and role of economic rent in distribution contracts between manufacturers and dealers. Manufacturers often devise contractual mechanisms that enable downstream dealers to earn economic rent. One such mechanism is the...
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Evaluation of economic rent of hydropower: A case of Nepal
Limbu, T. R.; Shrestha, R. - 2004
Like any other natural resources, hydro resources that are capable of generating electricity at cheaper cost give rise to economic rent. Nepal possesses huge amount of such cheaper hydro resources which is far in excess of the domestic demand. The existing rents levied by the governments are not...
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Australia's mining productivity paradox: implications for MFP measurement
Zheng, S.; Bloch, Harry - 2010
This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …
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Office of the Chief Financial Officer Annual Report 2010
Fernandez, Jeffrey - 2011
to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …
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Economic Predictions for Heat Mining: A Review and Analysis of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) Geothermal Energy Technology
Tester, Jefferson W.; Herzog, Howard J. - 2007
The main objectives of this study were first, to review and analyze several economic assessments of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy systems, and second, to reformulate an economic model for HDR with revised cost components. The economic models reviewed include the following studies...
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Concept for the Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development
2009
The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436552
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Index of harm: a measure for comparing occupational risk across industries
Solomon, K.A.; Abraham, S.C. - 2008
fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436578
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Transnational business masculinities : media representations of gender and management in global mining corporations
Pini, Barbara; Mayes, Robyn; McDonald, Paula K. - 2010
This paper examines Australian media representations of the male managers of two global mining corporations, Rio Tinto … the world's largest mining company. In terms of its profits and assets Rio Tinto ranks fourth in the world, but with …
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