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Fiscal concerns and lack of transparency shape economists’ debate over U.S.-Venezuela oil deal

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The Daily Journal – The announcement of the oil agreement between Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and U.S. President Donald Trump has sparked widespread debate among the country’s economists. Unlike the critical consensus among former oil ministers, economic experts have expressed a broader range of views, from deep fiscal skepticism to cautious optimism and open […]

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Recovery of Venezuela’s oil industry will require at least US$100 billion and a decade of work

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The Daily Journal.- Rebuilding Venezuela’s energy infrastructure, which has suffered severe damage from corrosion and years of accumulated deterioration, will require multibillion-dollar investments that industry estimates place between US$100 billion and US$220 billion. Economist Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin America Energy Program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, estimates that the minimum […]

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