"Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur L. Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen observer wrote of the Irvings: "You can love them or...

This new sourcebook admirably illuminates the spectrum of integrated policy interventions necessary to transform natural resource wealth into sustainable development, ranging from the allocation of resource extraction rights to the use and distribution of revenues. It recognizes and emphasizes...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Theoretical-Methodological Principles of the Problem -- Chapter 2: Creating Econometric Models: Evaluation and Analysis -- Chapter 3: Forecasting The Oil Prices in the World Market