When The Taps Run Dry

October 2007 | Economic Analysis

There are alternatives to oil-fuelled development in future, with trade services, telecommunications, agriculture and tourism all interesting prospects. The main question is whether the government can manage the transition to a broader-based economy: for far too long it has been mesmerised by the spell cast by oil.

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