For Venezuelans, the way the Chinese state elite thinks about its massive Oil-for-Loan deal with us can be a bit of a black box. This summer, two academics at a leading Chinese think tank peeled back the curtain...and we take a look.
How a single, bad development essay came to blight Venezuelan development thinking for the next eighty years.
Energy Security, Energy Equity, Environmental Sustainability: Pick two. Unless you’re Venezuela. If you’re Venezuela, pick zero.
It's time to table debate on what to do with the oil rent, and start thinking about how the oil industry cannot bear the weight of an entire economy. But first, we must understand how this all came to be.
The limited reform bill to the BCV Law MUD has proposed will do nothing to curb the spending free-for-all that's brought economic chaos to Venezuela.
Venezuela feels like it's at rock bottom, but the numbers tell another story. With the economy set to get much, much worse, removing Maduro would mean bailing chavismo out.
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