oil

Il mercato del petrolio è un'ottima cartina tornasole del grado di globalizzazione. Le ragioni sono svariate, ma basta ricordare i prodotti che derivano dal greggio. Ne elenchiamo alcuni: plastica, asfalto, gasolio, benzina, gas petrolio…

Even if the African continent as a whole manages to avoid a public health disaster from the novel coronavirus, its constituent nations will still have to navigate a set of secondary and tertiary impacts that are potentially just as…

«Hard times, who knows better than I?», si chiedeva Ray Charles in una famosa canzone. Oggi sono tempi duri per l’economia a causa della pandemia, e nessuno lo sa meglio dei produttori di petrolio. Voli sospesi, limitazioni agli…

As our population expands, the hunger for power continues to increase, and yet the dangers presented to our planet’s ecosystem by ever greater levels of greenhouse gas emissions are clear. The technological and economic convergence of an…

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the five central Asian republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kirgizstan have (re-) emerged as independent states. The task of building new state institutions and a functioning…