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New Release: Third Implementation Report of the Management Response to the Extractive Industries Review | National Oil Companies (NOCs) and Value Creation Study |
 The World Bank's Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division has launched a study on National Oil Companies (NOCs) and Value Creation and is seeking participation and comment. Please click here to learn more. –Current Affairs Archives Conferences & Events
 –Mining as Regional Economic Driver in Africa, March 6, 2008
 Presentations: NEPAD Spatial Development Strategy
Resource-based African Development Strategy –Oil Price Volatility, Economic Impacts, and Financial Management: Risk-Management Experience, Best Practice, and Outlook, Washington DC, March 10-11 2008. Cosponsored by George Washington University and the World Bank Institute (WBI). Are oil prices heading toward $150 or $50? As oil prices remain high and volatile, and global current account imbalances widen, the world economy faces heightened risks and volatility. –West African Regional Mining Forum, February 11-12, 2008 Featured Publications
Implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Applying Early Lessons from the Field, April 2008 Silvana Tordo, Fiscal Systems for Hydrocarbons, 2007 Cambodia Oil & Gas Briefing Notes Series Considering Trade Policies for Liquid Biofuels, May 2007, Masami Kojima, Donald Mitchell, and William Ward: This report—which addresses the issues associated with trade in liquid biofuels—is a second ESMAP report on biofuels, and forms part of a broader assessment of bioenergy undertaken by the World Bank. The report asks how liberalizing trade in liquid biofuels might affect biofuel production and consumption. Focusing primarily on ethanol and biodiesel, the report takes a time horizon of the next five to ten years. It outlines the important link between agriculture and biofuels, reviews past and present government policies for agriculture and for biofuels, and considers how these policies might affect the world biofuel market. The report highlights the links among the markets for petroleum products, biofuels, feedstocks, and the byproducts of biofuel processing. It reviews existing studies examining the likely consequences of much larger biofuel production and trade liberalization on biofuels and their feedstocks. It concludes with policy considerations. (Click here for the first report.) IFC Press Releases
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