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perhaps no world leader spends more of
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their time at launch events than the
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president of Guyana Dr Aran Ali that's
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because the small South American country
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is speedrunning National development for
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example just weeks ago the president was
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at the opening of the Aiden a new luxury
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hotel in the capital operated as a
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franchise of the Best Western this is
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only the country's thirdd aligned with
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an international brand and it's badly
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needed the country's top Hotel the
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Marriott is consistently selling for
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over $600 a night as a recent influx of
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foreigners has outpaced the country's
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ability to build hotel rooms meaning
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it's consistently more expensive than
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the Marriot in New York's Time Square
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but this new hotel in guyana's capital
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of Georgetown is the first of a relative
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Deluge backed by the country's
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government including a four points by
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Sheron Hyatt Place AC by Marriott
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Courtyard by Marriott and RIS and blue
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already announced an in development also
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notable enough to Warrant the
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president's attend was the opening of
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guana's first Starbucks prices are steep
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higher in fact than in the US a medium
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latte goes for 1400 guanes dollars or
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about
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$6.75 USD considering just 5 years ago
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Guana was one of the poorest countries
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in South America with a human
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development index lower than that of
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Palestine it's remarkable that there are
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now enough people with enough disposable
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income in Georgetown to sustain such an
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expensive coffee shop something similar
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can be said for the country's new F
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Changs whose opening was also of course
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attended by President Dr fanali there an
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order of crab wons goes for the
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equivalent of $22 us a major reason why
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these International brands are setting
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up in the country is because there are
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now more people from abroad coming into
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the country so in addition of course Dr
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air fanale was also on hand to receive a
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delegation from United Airlines when the
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carrier undertook its inaugural flight
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from Houston to Georgetown he fulfilled
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similar duties when British Airways
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started flights the country via St Lucia
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reconnecting Guana with its former
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Colonial capital of London as recently
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as 2019 guana's only flights beyond the
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Caribbean region or to Miami and New
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York since then in addition to the
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Houston and London flights American and
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JetBlue added their own flights to New
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York Caribbean Airlines to Toronto and
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aanka to Bogota there's just suddenly so
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much more in demand to get to the nation
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and therefore so many more Airlines
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willing to take Travelers dollars this
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turbocharge development also manifests
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in far less flashy ways as well the
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President also presided over the launch
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event of dynamik q a new Guana based
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Enterprise it provider it may not be
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exciting but as more and more Tech
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dependent companies enter the country
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they need a company to sell Hardware
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integrate cyber security systems and
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provide ongoing support something
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similar can be said for this highway
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opening as Georgetown grows larger and
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rents rise this section of land across
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the demara river is suburbanizing and
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therefore this higher throughput Road
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through the area will help alleviate
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commuter traffic behind this all the
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reason why Guana is developing so much
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so fast is oil and a whole lot of it now
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in retrospect it's not some massive
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surprise that Guana has oil in fact it
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sits directly next to Venezuela the
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country with the single largest proven
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oil reserves in the entire world
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geologists have long speculated that the
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same formations extended across the
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border into Gana yet Decades of
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half-hearted exploration last century
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only yielded uneventful discoveries that
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were either too small or too difficult
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to exploit commercially Exxon held
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exploration rights since the late '90s
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but it was only around 2013 as these
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rights Drew close to expiring that the
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company started to form a coalition of
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smaller oil companies willing to do what
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they weren't in paying $225 million for
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the exploratory drilling process in
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exchange these companies would get a
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portion of the overall oil rights and
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therefore Revenue if oil was found at
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all but on May 5th 2015 the Deepwater
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Champion oil rake broke through to
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liquid the ologists were right Gana had
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oil it would take some time for the true
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scale of this discovery to become clear
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as Exxon and its Partners kept exploring
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over the years that followed their
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understanding of the extent of this oil
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deposit grew and grew and grew today 11
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billion barrels worth of oil have been
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found that by itself is a lot it's a
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good bit more than that of Norway or
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Ecuador for example but while Guana only
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sits around 18th in the world for proven
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oil reserves there's a big difference
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between it and every other country
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higher on the list with a population of
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just 830,000 Guana is far far smaller
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than every country with more oil meaning
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its oil per capita is amongst the
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highest in the world beaten only by that
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of Kuwait but there is yet still a
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difference between Kuwait and Guana
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Kuwait is an Emirate a form of monarchy
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meaning much of the spoils of its oil
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wealth is confined to the ruling family
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however is a democracy meaning at least
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in theory oil Revenue should be used for
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the benefit of the nation and its people
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it would therefore be reasonable to
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conclude given the style of governance
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and the ratio of oil to people that the
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scale of change that guyana's oil
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Discovery will bring about will be
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amongst the greatest any country has
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ever seen in just 5 years since the
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start of production in 2019 tremendous
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change has already unfolded but that's
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truly only the start the nation reached
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output of 645,000 barrels per day in
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2024 representing a doubling of 2023
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production but based on the expected
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output of new projects already in
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development G is projected to double
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that count to 1.3 million barrels a day
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by 2027 and then beyond the sheer scale
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the oil's influence is magnified yet
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further by its cost it's cheap whereas
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globally a barrel tends to cost between
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$50 and $60 to pull out of the ground in
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Guana the comparatively simple geology
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puts it at just
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$36 near middle eastern prices oil sells
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in a global Marketplace so that leaves
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tremendous profit margins against
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today's 70 or so dollar per barrel oil
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prices with 50% of profits going to the
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government and profitability expected to
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only grow as project setup costs are
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paid off Guana is in for Far Far More
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change than the tremendous amount that
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is already occurred in five short years
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but this change is far from a guarantee
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win it would be intuitive on the surface
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to expect that a massive influx of cash
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into one of the world's poorest
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countries would lead to it becoming a
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far wealthier one and it will this is
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already happening of course its economic
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growth rates are quite literally the
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fastest in the world but the mere fact
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that a country's Topline indicators move
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up and to the right is not necessarily a
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good thing look no further than guana's
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Western neighbor Venezuela as the
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country with the world's most oil it
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developed almost single-handedly off of
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the revenues the resource provided and
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this did pull it up to the status as the
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wealthiest country in South America for
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a period the standard of living in
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Caracas was high democracy was stable
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the economy was strong but of course the
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Venezuela of today is far from that in
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fact on the list of the 10 countries
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with the largest proven oil reserves the
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economic profiles of the Nations vary
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widely there are some of the world's
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wealthiest and most developed economies
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like the US Canada and UAE but then
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there are places like Venezuela and Iraq
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and Iran while these nations still trend
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wealthier on a GDP per capita basis than
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most of their Regional neighbors they
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certainly are not as wealthy as some of
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their neighbors on this chart plotting
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these nations out by GDP per capita
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proves it objectively there is very
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little correlation between oil reserves
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and National wealth economists know this
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and have studied the phenomenon since
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the birth of the P State and they have
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at least some straightforward
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explanations for example currency
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exchange rates at their simplest level
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ENT all the manners in which countries
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manipulate the relationship fluctuate
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based on the traditional influences of
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supply and demand in a Marketplace
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that's to say if more people want Guan
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dollars likely to buy things from Guyana
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they'll have to offer more US dollars
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per guanes dollar in order to compensate
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for the increased demand as only so many
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ganes are ever willing to take US
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dollars in exchange for their own of
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course when a nation starts producing
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oil plenty more people want to buy from
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it so plenty more people want its
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currency so without inter vention a
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currency's value will rise relative to
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others you'll get fewer guanes dollars
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in exchange for each us one this does
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have benefits a Guan person could now
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buy a product from abroad say an iPhone
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for Less given the increased value of
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their money imported goods in general
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get cheaper but it also presents
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challenges a guani sugar exporter for
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example gets their money from abroad
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their income is tied to foreign
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currencies and therefore their income in
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local currency is now effectively lower
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they might earn the same number of US
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dollars but those dollars translate to
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fewer goods and services locally so
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that's all to say absent intervention
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the success of oil often can lead to the
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failure of other older Industries in a
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nation the ones that actually employ
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local workers since oil tends to hire
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from abroad so oil Revenue by itself
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does very little for a nation and can
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actually actively damage the economy so
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what matters is what a government does
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with the revenue and the data pretty
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clearly shows what they
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should while oil reserves exhibit almost
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no correlation with GDP per capita
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another indicator does oil rents as a
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percent of GDP that's to say the more
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Reliant an oil Rich nation is on its
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resource the less its economy tends to
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have developed or flipping that the
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other way this appears to indicate that
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the more a resourcer nation diversifies
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away from its resource the greater its
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economy will grow of course these days
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this is obvious every oil Rich Nation
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talks constantly about diversification
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the number that actually achieve it
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though is low in that top 10 Group
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Canada Russia and the US were large and
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developed enough economies pre- oil that
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diversification was never a worry the
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industries in Venezuela and Iran are
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held back by sanctions and other
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geopolitical factors meaning oil rent as
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a percent of GDP likely would be higher
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in an unrestricted Market Saudi Arabia
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Iraq Kuwait and Libya are some of the
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world's most oil Reliant and have not
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had tremendous success historically at
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diversification even if Saudi Arabia and
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to a lesser extent Kuwait have started
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to make more meaningful progress fairly
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recently the UAE really stands as a rare
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example of a previously lowincome
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country experiencing a relatively recent
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oil boom and translating it into a high
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inome stable Diversified economy so
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guana's task is to add itself to that
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exclusive list and it's going to be
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anything but easy
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not only is Gana tiny it's disconnected
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and divided take the nation's 2012
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census it's most recent since the
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country is yet to publish its 2022
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Edition nationally 74% of people live in
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rural areas putting it near Afghanistan
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and Tajikistan in the metric and that
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doesn't consider that 90% of the
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population lives in six regions that
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comprise the coastlands while the other
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10% are spread across the other 2third
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of the nation's land mass in What's
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called the Hinterlands in the
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Hinterlands the closest comparable US
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state in terms of population density is
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Alaska while for the nation in whole the
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most comparable state would be the US's
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third least dense Montana gyana then is
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not only small in size it's small in
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population and population centers with
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pockets of people and Villages spread
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across a relatively rough and heavily
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forested landscape this makes managing a
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country let alone a functioning
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democracy all the more difficult as
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conveniences like Broadband or cell
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service or even paved roadways have yet
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to make it to many communities then
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zooming out another physical disconnect
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more than half of all ganes live outside
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of Ghana there are 300,000 in the United
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States nearly 100,000 in Canada and
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30,000 in the United Kingdom if the
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guanes population of Brooklyn was a city
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in Ghana for instance it'd be the
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country's second largest city
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effectively the country is split between
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those who have and haven't left with
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massive immigration beginning in the
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country in the 1970s largely on account
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of a lack of work prospects and moments
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of real instability fueled by another
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divide this one
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ethnic a result of colonial era
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indentured servitude and the
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transatlantic slave trade Gana is split
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between two major ethnic groups with
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nearly 40% of the population indogan and
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another 30% afro ganes while the country
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has been governed by a multi-party
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democracy since before independence in
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1966 the nation's Stark ethnic divides
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have informed political leanings and
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fueled bouts of political violence with
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the afro ganes passionately backing The
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People's National Congress while indog
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ganes push the people's Progressive
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Party even in the country's heavily
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publicized and closely monitored
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elections of 1992 deem the nation's
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first fair and free riots and an attack
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on the elections commission Building
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made the New York Times the trend
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continued in the following elections of
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1997 and 2001 as violence marred both
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occasions nevertheless Ghana has
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remained a democracy albeit a the
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concerningly frail one as it ranks 67th
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on The Economist democracy index where
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it's categorized as a flawed democracy
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and it's these types of indicators that
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have onlookers worried that Newfound
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wealth May well tip the country over but
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Ghana for its part has so far backed its
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commitment to democracy in its
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burgeoning oil boom for one they've
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taken a play out of the number one
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ranked democracy on this list Norway in
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creating a sovereign wealth Fund in 2019
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essentially a national scale Investment
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Portfolio to hold and grow the oil
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wealth because this fund or the natural
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resource fund is public ghis can keep an
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eye on it cutting down on corruption and
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because this fund is designed for the
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betterment of the country's future
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prospects it's directed to invest in the
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all important diversification of
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guyana's economy Beyond oil in some ways
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this move was a continuation of guyana's
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2017 entrance into the extractive
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industries transparency initiative run
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by a Norwegian organization which showed
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a governmental willingness to open up on
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how oil money is being used and in 2021
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the messaging of 2017 and 2019 was
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doubled down on with further amendments
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to the natural resource fund that
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ensured any transfer out of the fund
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would have to be approved by Parliament
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rather than just a federal bureau with
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unelected Representatives at the helm
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and while young the program is beginning
14:47
to pay some dividends in early 2024
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president aan Ali presented a national
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budget of 5.5 billion USD a number that
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blew past the previous year's High
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Watermark of 3 .75 billion making
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possible a budget some six times larger
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than that of 10 years prior was the fact
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that 29% of it was covered by four
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scheduled and executed transfers of
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natural resource funds money held in the
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New York Federal Reserve Bank back to
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the nation your marked within this big
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oil-backed budget was nearly $500
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million for developing agriculture
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infrastructure nearly $1 billion for
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Rose and bridges and another $20 million
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towards the University of Ghana to help
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reduce tuition payments all efforts a to
15:29
close physical and educational divides
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within the country but perhaps the most
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exciting and ambitious aspect of the
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year's budget was the continued funding
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of a 300 megawatt natural gas power
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plant with another $400 million going to
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the project the plant could have a truly
15:45
revolutionary impact on the nation as
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currently guana's total energy sector
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capacity sits at around 300 megaw and
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relies on inconsistent and often private
15:55
self-generated Diesel power in taking on
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a 1.7 billion dooll project to pipe
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unused natural gas from the oil field to
16:02
a plant roughly here Guana is using its
16:04
oil windfall to potentially Electrify a
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country where houses are still Colonial
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remnants roads are still dirt and
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cooking in some Villages is done by wood
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and charcoal the life altering
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transformative potential can't be
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overstated but the project has hit some
16:20
snags on the Exxon Mobile side the side
16:22
responsible for constructing the 125 M
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or 200 km pipeline things are on Target
16:28
and on time for an end of 2024 delivery
16:31
however on the plant construction side
16:33
the side contracted out by the federal
16:34
government to the us-based partnership
16:36
of CH4 and linsa disputes over timing
16:39
and cost for the project have pushed the
16:40
plant's projected opening into late 2025
16:44
in the grand scheme of things though
16:45
it's unlikely a delay and an increased
16:47
price tag will prove too much of an
16:49
issue or perhaps it's an example of a
16:52
crack in the facade it wouldn't be the
16:54
first well these first few years of
16:57
Ghana's oil era have gone on balance
16:59
smoothly hiccups have occurred for one
17:03
in the 2020 snap election incumbent
17:05
David Granger was nearly sworn in as
17:08
president before the high court stepped
17:09
in and blocked the move to make time for
17:11
a recount which ultimately proved the
17:13
initial vote counting fraudulent leading
17:15
to aan Al's Inauguration in 2024 Ghana's
17:19
Representatives found themselves in the
17:20
crosshairs of the UN rights committee
17:22
over complaints of corruption and
17:23
non-competitive bidding processes linked
17:25
to government officials and in every
17:27
announcement of a new government program
17:29
or large spending plan there's the
17:31
questioning from near and far academics
17:33
and overlooked rural gianis alike over
17:36
exactly which gian's people are meant to
17:38
benefit from such projects and then
17:41
there's the Venezuela problem this
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region is called the esao it's a bit
17:46
smaller than Florida it's home to over
17:48
100,000 it's heavily forested it holds a
17:51
trove of gold and diamonds and when
17:53
looking at a map it traditionally
17:55
appears within the borders of Ghana but
17:58
not the one that vene introduced in late
18:00
2023 now the region has been disputed
18:02
for more than a century and while a 1966
18:05
agreement to find a solution then
18:07
efforts by Gana to settle the dispute
18:08
through the UN as recently as 2020 have
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pushed for a resolution Venezuela has
18:13
refused to play ball and now the
18:15
troubled country is only intensifying
18:18
its rhetoric around the region as the
18:19
reimagined map of Venezuela has been
18:21
paired with nationalist messaging on the
18:23
part of President Maduro that the rise
18:25
of Gana and the encroachment of Exxon
18:27
Mobile in the region an extension of
18:29
American Empire in his view is a direct
18:32
threat in a December referendum it
18:34
appeared that a majority of Venezuelans
18:36
agreed with the head of state as an
18:38
incredible 99% of Voters agreed that
18:41
Venezuela has the right to the region
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turnout however was so low and the
18:46
results so obviously altered by the
18:48
government that Guyana and the rest of
18:50
the International Community wary of
18:52
Venezuela's intensifying tone took a
18:54
sigh of relief but Maduro has so far
18:57
proved undeterred in the face of an
18:58
unenthused Venezuelan voter base his
19:01
government has spent much of 2024
19:03
showcasing new missile boats on social
19:05
media authorizing and publicizing
19:07
military aircraft exercises over the
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Atlantic and expanding the anoko island
19:11
military base and air strip directly on
19:13
the border of gyana maduro's exact
19:15
purpose and what the unpredictable
19:17
regime does next remains to be seen but
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on top of its efforts to ensure it
19:21
doesn't make the same mistakes as
19:23
Venezuela gyana is also dealing with the
19:25
existential threat of a large swath of
19:27
the nation becoming
19:29
Venezuela but overall the story of gyana
19:32
is not a new one plenty of previously
19:34
poor countries have navigated this
19:36
complex web of opportunity and Peril
19:39
what makes Gana situation unique is the
19:41
combination of the fact that it's
19:43
happening now it's happening in a
19:45
democracy and it's happening in the US's
19:47
backyard that really just means more
19:49
people are paying attention there's a
19:51
long history of countries getting
19:52
trapped in the resource curse and ending
19:54
up no better than they were pre- oil but
19:56
many of those failures happened in an
19:58
era where there was less historical
19:59
precedent and therefore less recognition
20:02
of the pitfalls worth avoiding there's
20:04
also a long history of weak democracies
20:06
devolving into authoritarian regimes
20:08
with the pressures oil applies it's
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happened in Venezuela it's happened in
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Iran it's happening in Angola each time
20:16
the direct causes are different but oil
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seemingly serves as fuel to the flame in
20:20
flawed democracies when there's a lot to
20:23
gain from corruption and weak
20:25
institutions that could get in the way
20:27
one seemingly just gets more corruption
20:29
backed up by authoritarianism but
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there's not as much of a long history of
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countries as geographically close to the
20:35
US experiencing the situation Venezuela
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is the main case and considering where
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it's ended up it'd be reasonable to
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assume that the US will play a much more
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active role in Guyana than it has in
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many of the West African economies that
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have gone through oil Booms for example
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guyana's off to a strong start right now
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in these early early years they're
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directing money in a lot of smart ways
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and the country's Democratic
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institutions appear to be intact but the
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bulk of the challenge is still to come
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guyana's only gone through one election
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since the scale of its impending oil
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wealth became clear and that was the
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election that nearly Ended as a coup the
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Gan oil boom is likely to be one of the
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world's last with peak oil Demand on the
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horizon the industry is growing less and
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less interested in investing the
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enormous amounts necessary to set up
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production in new areas already unlikely
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new discoveries will increasingly go
21:28
unex exploit it so Gana presents one
21:31
last opportunity to get it right the
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steps a nation in its position need to
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take are as clear as they've ever been
21:37
it's the ensuring that it actually does
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so that's tricky but if it does it
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appears that gyana is set for an
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incredible transformation that will
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reshape the entire
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region of course understanding what's
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next for Ghana also requires an
21:53
understanding of Venezuela's next move
21:55
and understanding what Venezuela's up to
21:57
has required a careful consideration of
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the biases within my own research on the
22:01
topic given how politically charged
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anything to do with the country or its
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politics or its economy or its leader
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has become when looking for sources and
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take for instance the issue of rising
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tensions between Venezuela and its
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neighbors an important component of this
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often associated with a perceived ills
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of socialism and given that so much news
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and generate ad Revenue I wanted to make
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sure that it was fair to characterize
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Venezuela's tone as increasingly hostile
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towards its neighbors without repeating
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the biases of slanted news sources
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ground news allowed me to do that by
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compiling articles on the growing Rift
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between Brazil and Venezuela and
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characterizing the sources for such
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stories as Center left or right it also
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generated a list of key points made in
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right leaning articles and left leaning
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sources were considered Center and given
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that the right leaning and left leaning
22:54
talking points were fairly similar I was
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able to continue drafting the script
22:58
with confidence that I'm not simply
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echoing my own or anyone else's
23:01
political biases and our only as ground
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