Oil Dorado? Guyana’s Black Gold
Live Book LaunchYouTubeTuesday February 1, 20222pmEST/7pmGMT https://youtu.be/W16jk0BdSZY Panelists: Professor Anthony Bryan, Sanjeev Datadin MP, Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh, Professor Terrence Blackman, and GHK Lall.
Live Book LaunchYouTubeTuesday February 1, 20222pmEST/7pmGMT https://youtu.be/W16jk0BdSZY Panelists: Professor Anthony Bryan, Sanjeev Datadin MP, Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh, Professor Terrence Blackman, and GHK Lall.
Guyana’s greatest asset is her human capital. How do we ensure that Guyanese take an increasing percentage of high-tier petroleum engineering and other technical jobs and business at this critical…
Guyana Business Journal & Caribbean Policy Consortium hold webinar on new study: “Strategic Considerations for Local Content Requirements in Guyana’s Oil Sector” by Dr. Jerry Haar Significant Research Findings: Guyana’s…
The Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) and the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC) have teamed up to provide Guyanese in the diaspora with a series of webinars that will cover Guyana’s LOCAL…
I come from the nigger yard of yesterday leaping from the oppessors’ hate and the scorn of myself I come to the world with scars upon my soul wounds on…
Vishal Mangalwandi, above, speaks eloquently to the manner in which corruption retards societal development. The corruption perceptions index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector…
In this week’s installment from the GBJ we address the question of revenues from the impending oil production. In an earlier post we noted that the main direct effect of the…
A small English-speaking nation located on the northern coast of the continent of South America, Guyana is said to be on the cusp of wealth based on the discovery of…
Evidently, these discoveries will provide Guyana with much needed and welcomed additional financial revenues for growth-supportive investments and social expenditure, as well as financial buffers against adverse economic shocks. However, oil discoveries tend to make non-oil sectors less competitive via the appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) and can induce macroeconomic volatility (van der Ploeg and Poelhekke, 2009). How does a young woman in Ozama St. North Ruimveldt win this game? GBJ will take up aspects of this question in next week’s installment.