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Energy market liberalization and international economic interdependence have affected governments' ability to react to security of supply challenges. On the other side, whereas in the past security of supply was largely seen as a national responsibility, the frame of reference has increasingly...
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major oil exporters (Algeria, Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela) with differing levels of internal violence. To capture the …
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Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to find a balance between maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy...
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considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important condi-tions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical … stability, economic demand and population stability are evaluated in the case of Iraq. Several other considerations are also …
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cooperation. However, in Iraq and Syria, rising tensions between Turkey and Turkey-affiliated groups on the one hand and Iran and … Iran-backed groups on the other, have put the two countries on a collision course. Conflictual relations between Turkey and … Iran have the potential to destabilise the Middle East and the South Caucasus, spawning additional security risks as well …
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How was life expectancy in Iran affected by the Islamic Revolution and subsequent war with Iraq? This study examines … the joint effect of regime change and the war against Iraq on life expectancy in Iran between 1978 and 1988. If there had … life expectancies of the counterfactual and actual Iran that underwent a regime change and war with Iraq. Our results …
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This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East and North Africa (‘MENA’) and Organization of the Petroleum Exporting … (‘OPEC’) countries. The synthetic Iran matches the average level of key pre-revolution life expectancy correlates and the …
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The paper maps practically all European states between, on the one hand, the US and UK belligerents in the Iraq …
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Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a...
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