Oil sector is the most effective sector in these countries. Oil is the most important product that world industries use as the cheapest energy. The price of oil depends on the world’s supply and demand and many economic, political and geographical variables. This is the reason why the price of oil has fluctuations. The fluctuations in oil price lead to fluctuate in the oil revenues of the membe...

The paper elaborates on changing economic paradigms in India over the past six decades that finally led to structural adjustment in 1991. The paper investigates how economic reforms failed to resolve social challenges in India. From the mid-1960s, when Congress dominance in independent India was challenged for the first time economic crisis and political instability have been closely related, a...

OBJECTIVES To understand the strategy of British American Tobacco (BAT) and other transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) to gain access to the Lebanese market, which has remained relatively closed under monopoly ownership and political instability. METHODS Analysis of internal industry documents, local language secondary sources and industry publications. RESULTS TTCs have relied on legal a...

Address correspondence to Ghialy Yap, School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Faculty of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Tourism Organization, 2006). For those developing countries that have abundant labor supply, tourism is considered as an industry that can alleviate poverty and create jobs to financial...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...