Breaking the Spell of Africa’s “Resource Curse”
Prosperity in Africa has traditionally been very tightly connected to the price of commodities. As such, the resource-rich continent, a home to a third of
Prosperity in Africa has traditionally been very tightly connected to the price of commodities. As such, the resource-rich continent, a home to a third of
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan is going to reveal its first quarter earnings on Thursday (30 April) amidst the projections of a profit of 50 cents a
Despite the economic slowdown, China’s demand for a variety of commodities has been surprisingly solid since the beginning of this year. In the first quarter,
The fertilizer giant EuroChem, Russia’s largest producer of phosphate fertilizers and nitrogen, has picked a 915-acre site in St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana,
South Korea announced on Monday (April 27) that it would allow a private aid group to send fertilizer to North Korea. This move is one
Libya had to close down the western El Feel oilfield on Saturday (April 25), due to the strike of the country’s security guards over salary.
Agata Loskot-Strachota and Georg Zachmann (Bruegel, Brussels) The main problem with the October 2014 agreement on gas supplies between the European Union, Ukraine and Russia
ICL announced yesterday (23 April) that it had finalized deals to supply its Chinese customers an aggregate 1.1 million metric tons of potash by the
It can get increasingly expensive for Ghana to seek arbitration in a dispute with Ivory Coast over the oil-rich basin in the Atlantic Ocean. The
Pemex, the Mexican state-owned petroleum company created in 1938, is readying to increase its production after a decade of decline. Gustavo Fernandez, the head of