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The budget balance equals government outlays minus
revenues.
That would mean a catastrophic loss of state
revenues
for today’s major Arab oil-producing countries, rendering them highly vulnerable to the compounding consequences of existing water shortages, rapid demographic expansion, climate change, and declining crop yields.
High oil prices have created huge export
revenues
for Middle Eastern governments, which still want to park their earnings in American assets.
The same is true of Russia, whose oligarchs, as well as the huge state investment fund that finance minister Alexi Kudrin has created, also want to invest their oil
revenues
in the US.
In 1999, oil and gas
revenues
contributed $40.5 billion to Russia’s GDP.
From 2005-2008, annual hydrocarbon
revenues
were $223.6 billion higher than in 1999; at the end of this period, Russia invaded Georgia.
While the oil market is the largest determinant of Russia’s near-term economic prospects, accounting as it does for half of export revenues, long-term growth requires Russia to re-enter international capital markets, attract foreign investment (and stem capital flight), and reintegrate with the global economy.
So far, Norway has avoided the worst pitfalls of the Dutch disease by using its massive oil
revenues
to establish a national savings scheme, the Petroleum Fund, which is permitted to invest only in foreign assets.
The lower-paid tend to register with the public system, which is also financed from general
revenues
so that the poorest are fully subsidized.
This is particularly true with respect to lending in foreign currencies to economic agents that do not have
revenues
in those currencies.
And government debt, of course, has risen sharply, owing to bank bailouts and a sharp, recession-fueled decline in tax
revenues.
Each reduction of one million barrels per day translates into lost
revenues
of around $30 million per day at today's world market price of $30 per barrel.
This implies that if Iraq increased its oil exports by one million barrels a day--which it could quickly achieve with a cessation of attacks on its infrastructure--it would have around $10 billion per year in additional
revenues
to begin reconstruction.
If the US were then to give just a fraction of the financial saving to Iraq in 2004, there would be plenty of incremental
revenues
to run the Iraqi Government and to support the recovery of oil production.
If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high potential future
revenues
from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
It is notable that Big Tech still derives most of its
revenues
from its companies’ core products – for example, the Apple iPhone, Microsoft Office, and the Google search engine.
When an economy shrinks, government debt grows automatically, because its
revenues
decline and its expenses rise.
So far, the good offices of the Norwegian government have failed to produce an agreement on the key question of the post-independence distribution of oil
revenues
between North and South.
Given that most of Sudan’s oil wealth is concentrated in the South, the management of the oil industry and its
revenues
after secession is an existential problem for Bashir’s regime and its capacity to control his vast and ethnically diverse country.
As one of the poorest and neediest countries in the world, for which oil
revenues
would be the only source of income for years to come, an independent South Sudan could not be expected to rescue the debt-ridden North.
Yet carbon remains badly mispriced, owing to fossil-fuel subsidies and the absence of tax
revenues
needed to address the global externalities of climate change.
Either it could take steps to boost tax revenues, such as by improving property-tax collections (currently extremely low), or it could reduce the level of any basic income it introduces.
This tax has not yet been restored, but the government is planning to introduce a number of new levies on housing, which would ultimately restore the lost
revenues.
If monetary policymakers conclude that a permanent increase in the monetary base is needed to achieve their inflation target, they could use permanently increase the monetary base and transfer the seigniorage
revenues
to government.
It would be a pity if policymakers failed to take advantage of it simply because we do not think about seigniorage
revenues
correctly.
In this scenario, different players – Medicare and Medicaid, state and local governments, private insurers, physicians, and social entrepreneurs – collaborate to hammer out effective solutions that can be scaled with government
revenues.
Not surprisingly, that collapse has been a massive shock to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil sheikhdoms, which rely on oil for some 85% of their
revenues.
The fiscal buffers from past oil
revenues
can provide the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with short-term relief.
From 2012 to 2014, the GCC’s non-oil tax
revenues
averaged only about 1.6% of GDP.
The last generation of Soviet leaders well understood the importance of maintaining living standards, which is why they used
revenues
from oil and gas exports to import consumer goods.
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