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Before the revolution, Libya produced nearly 1.6 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for 96% of the country’s export earnings.
Brexit is not just a political upheaval; it is a revolution.
Brexit has ushered in a revolution in a country without a revolutionary tradition.
Examples from the last two centuries include such transformative products and innovations as railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; telegraph, telephones, radio, and television; air conditioning; and, as just noted, the various technologies responsible for the IT revolution, including both mainframe and personal computers, routers and other hardware devices, and much of the software that operates them.
It may take nothing less than revolution – ideally peaceful, of course – to replace the elites who now dominate these economies and societies, and for whom growth is not the central objective.
But statesmen who aim to liquidate the debt should recall another famous specter – the specter of revolution.
Most Americans remember it as the country that abducted US diplomats soon after its Islamic revolution in 1979, holding them for no apparent purpose for 444 days.
However, another factor could also be the digital revolution which, at least for the main protagonists, is increasingly turning out to be a “wealth catalyst”.
In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.
Reinvigorating Egypt’s EconomyNEWPORT BEACH – Some two years into Egypt’s grass-roots revolution, the country’s economy is in a worrisome downward spiral.
A growing number of people, inside and outside of the country, are starting to blame the revolution itself for derailing an economy that was growing, reducing its external-debt burden, and maintaining a comfortable cushion of international reserves.
Blaming the revolution is the wrong approach to Egypt’s current economic woes.
Disruption accompanied each previous industrial revolution, and the fourth will be no different.
So you would think that the same productivity revolution would happen in those countries.
The Promise of Digital FinanceBERKELEY – An economic development revolution lies literally in the palm of a single hand.
Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western “imperialism” and Israel, saluted Mousavi’s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, “the [anti-Zionist] resistance cannot afford a pro-American velvet revolution.”
In fact, social democrats were regarded as more dangerous than hard-line conservatives, because their moderate left-wing talk only served to postpone the revolution.
But there is another, quieter revolution bringing companies from OECD countries to emerging markets: disruptive innovation.
It may well involve revolutions in bio-, nano-, and digital technology, together with a social-networking revolution that eliminates geographical and cultural barriers.
This data revolution offers enormous potential for improving decision-making at every level – from the local farmer to world-spanning development organizations.
If the data revolution is to be harnessed in the service of sustainable development, the best practices of this field must be incorporated into the effort.
It is not enough simply to assume that the data revolution will benefit sustainable development.
Even more significant, however, are the differences in energy costs, which are now up to 50% lower in the US – a gap that is likely to widen further as America’s shale-gas revolution continues.
Emma Bonino and The War For Europe's FutureCAMBRIDGE: Everybody agrees: Europe needs a revolution of its economic structure.
Somehow, they reckon, the information revolution will arrive in a European way.
This is an old idea from the California tax revolt of twenty-five years ago that was an important part of America's supply side revolution.
In the meantime, even if the referendum is held and eventually lost under the combined onslaught of bureaucrats, politicians and union bosses, the modernization revolution is alive.
As a ruling party, Hamas has insisted that its sole concern is the Palestinian people, not a global Islamic revolution.
In the United States alone, there is a potential shortfall of 1.5 million data-savvy managers and analysts needed to drive the emerging data revolution in manufacturing.
France, in this light, becomes, once again, the spearhead of a new European Revolution – a revolution based not on the principles of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité,” but on the pleasure principle.
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