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The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin: The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia book cover

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The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia

Edited By Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand Copyright 2008
256 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to new oil discoveries, new pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil boom. It is founded on empirical studies, using either macroeconomic tools or an analysis of... Read more

Preface (Mathilde Maurel)  1. Introduction  PART ONE: Background  2. Oil in the Caspian Basin: Facts and Figures (Gael Raballand and Regis Gente)  3. The Impact of Oil Revenues on Economic Performance: Analytical Issues (Michael Lewin)  PART TWO: Macroeconomic Links and Fiscal Decentralization.   4. Nominal and Real Exchange Rates in Kazakhstan: Any Sign of the Dutch Disease? (Balazs Egert and Carol Leonard).  5. Resource Revenues and Fiscal Sustainability in Kazakhstan (Peter Lohmus and Anna Ter Martirosyan).  6. Fiscal Decentralization in Centralized States: Central Asian Patterns (Natalie Leschenko and Manuela Troschke).  PART THREE: Microeconomic Analysis of Redistribution  7. Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Kazakhstan (Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret Gaël Raballand and Patricia Sourdin)  8. Whither Oil Money? Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan (Matthias Luecke and Natalia Trofimenko)  PART FOUR: Governance and Local Impact: Alternative viewpoints  9. Improving the Beneficial Socio-Economic Impact of Hydrocarbon Extraction on Local/Regional Development in Caspian Economies (Richard Auty).  10. Tengiz Crude: A View from Below (Saulesh Yessenova).  11. Conclusions 

Biography

Boris Najman is Associate Professor at the University of Paris XII, France and researcher at CES-ROSES, a joint research unit of University of Paris I and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS. He is an expert on labour and social policies in transition economies.

Richard Pomfret has been Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide since 1992.  In 2006-7 he is the AGIP Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.  He is the author of The Central Asian Economies since Independence (2006). His research interests have centred on economic development and international economics.

Gaël Raballand received his PhD in economics from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). Currently, he works as a Young Professional at the World Bank in Washington DC. Prior to this, he was a consultant for the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris.

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