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US Shale Gas: A New Option For Japanese LNG Supply
...INTERNATIONAL US Shale Gas: A New Option For Japanese LNG Supply By-James Jensen Japan has increasingly been forced, since the 2009 recession, to face severe challenges to its energy and environmental policies. The March 2011 Fukushima disaster placed the fu...
Volume: 57Issue: 06Published at Fri, 07 Feb 2014 -
Examining The CBI-Iraq Government Conflict – A Focus On Forex
...ccess to secure loans from the CBI to finance a possible deficit in the budget. (Article 26 of the CBI Law prohibits lending to the government.) Since then, efforts to limit the bank’s independence resulted in a decision by the High Federal Court in January 2011 to subordinate the CBI and other in...
Volume: 56Issue: 06Published at Fri, 08 Feb 2013 -
Iraq’s Power Crisis And The Need To Re-Engage The Private Sector – Smartly
...aqi household with power for only four to five hours on any given day. How Bad Is The Problem? Despite some additions to capacity over the past decade, demand for electricity in Iraq has been outstripping supply. At an extreme, in July 2011 the peak demand was reportedly over 14.0gw.2 Iraq’s in...
Volume: 55Issue: 06Published at Mon, 06 Feb 2012 -
A Tentative Forecast For Iraq’s Oil Production 2010-20
...enario is indicative: Iraqi Oil Production (Mn B\D) 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2.7 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.5 7.8 These figures are based on achieving the plateaus in the giant fields in the first licensing round as we...
Volume: 53Issue: 06Published at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 -
Statement By The IMF Representative At The International Donors’ Conference For Lebanon, Paris 25 January 2007
...licy measures has been evaluated in a medium-term scenario by IMF staff. The scenario confirms the authorities' own estimate that fiscal adjustment, electricity sector reform, and the planned partial privatization could bring down the debt ratio to under 150% in 2011, from 188% in 2006. Most of the re...
Volume: 50Issue: 06Published at Mon, 05 Feb 2007