June 18, 2019/OilPrice.com – U.S. oil imports from OPEC members recently plunged to a thirty-year low. In March 2019, imports from OPEC members dropped to 1.5 mb/d, the lowest since 1986. – Soaring shale production has eliminated a large portion of imports more generally. – Most recently, however, imports […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
A Global Picture of Public Wealth
June 18, 2019/IMFBlog By Jason Harris, Abdelhak Senhadji, and Alexander F. Tieman Our new data on government assets released today shows that when governments know what they own, they can make better use of the assets for the well-being of all their citizens. We make these data free and publicly […]
State Ownership in Europe’s Former Socialist States: The Unfinished Reform Agenda
June 18, 2019/IMFBlog By Poul Thomsen As we approach the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) have made tremendous progress in becoming full-fledged market economies and raising income levels. Large-scale privatization in the 1990s was a […]
