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Wealthy families and industrial groups from the oil-rich Gulf countries make up the majority of the bank's founding shareholders.

It seems an irony that you have to drive around one of the oil rich countries of the world trying to find petrol.

Bahrain is the only Arab state so far in the oil-rich Persian Gulf beset by unrest amid protests across much of the rest of the Mideast.

"It was perfectly set up to become a Saudi situation, " he said, referring to the oil-rich kingdom's reputation of stability.

It would have been neither feasible nor wise for oil-rich nations to spend this windfall at home, so much of it was saved and sent abroad.

But Iraqis are taking to the streets to ask why millions are living in poverty in one of the most oil-rich countries in the world.

Election dates are often moved up in oil-rich Kazakhstan, whenever it suits the authorities.

France said it would host an international meeting next week that would lay out a road map for the oil-rich country's future.

Even the oil-rich Shia south, considered comparatively stable a year or so ago, is lawless (see article).

Seen as the presumptive heir of an oil-rich North African country, he became a fixture in London society.

It enabled him to move troops and maintain supply lines across the oil-rich Sahara separating east from west.

TWO years ago, oil-rich Angola was reckoned to have one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

The former governor of the oil-rich Delta State received a salary of less than $25, 000 a year.

Rush hour is always a headache for drivers on the congested streets of the steamy towns of the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico region.

Even the oil-rich Shiah south, considered comparatively stable a year or so ago, is lawless.

The total includes $15 billion that Dubai raised this year from Abu Dhabi, an oil-rich fellow member of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Some oil-rich Arab countries are belatedly beginning to address the problem.

China wants to develop better ties with oil rich countries in the region as it hunts for new supplies of energy to fuel its booming economy.

As Dubai's crisis deepened, everyone waited for its oil-rich neighbour to bail it out.

Moreover, the "Angolagate" trial, as the French call it, has strained relations between France and the oil-rich former Portuguese colony.

China and Vietnam have traded diplomatic jabs over the past month after clashes in parts of the oil-rich sea claimed by both countries.

The border running through an oil-rich district that straddles the two entities has yet to be drawn, pending a further referendum there.

But the tussle between oil companies and oil-rich nations has implications far wider than prompting infighting among the companies.

Though remittances have not fallen much yet, an uprising in an oil-rich Gulf kingdom would be serious.

This does more than pull apart the African Rift, it pulls the entire oil rich Middle East into a skew.

Sudden interest in "civilian" nuclear power around the oil-rich Gulf shows that Iran's neighbours are hedging their bets.

Other firms are working on ways to break up the cells of oil-rich algae to get at the oil.

It has called on the United Nations to take the lead in post-conflict arrangements in the oil-rich country.

The energy market has met an old foe: a war in an oil-rich Middle Eastern country.

Nowhere are the dilemmas more acute than in the Gulf, where virtually all the oil-rich states peg their currencies to the greenback.

The oil-rich kingdom so far has escaped mass unrest of the sort unleashed in Egypt or Libya.

Some Republican senators from the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico coastal region were quick to accuse the president of not offering anything new.

If Kuwait's oil-rich neighbours also dropped their dollar pegs, the impact would be felt way beyond the Gulf.

It was quick to recognise oil-rich South Sudan when it seceded in July, having sent observers to monitor its referendum on independence.

and uncertain supply, as the turmoil in Iraq generates fear and instability throughout the oil-rich Middle East.

Beyond Algiers, on opposite sides of a rugged mountain range, lie fertile coastal plains and the vast oil-rich desert.

This acquisition as a springboard to Syria , perhaps in the future be able to enter the oil-rich, oil well in Iraq and other countries.

In Dubai, long an oil-rich Gulf symbol of rapid economic growth, the building reflects the city's hunger for global prestige.

But one of the earliest sovereign wealth funds was established by oil-rich Norway.

Oil rich countries, particularly those in the Persian Gulf, as eager to buy more weapons, with which to defend their assets.

Trade with oil-rich Libya and the resumption of remittances would be a welcome relief.

"For there's Condi and Dick, my old compadre, talking to me about some oil-rich Saudi, but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home. "

The dangers can be seen all too clearly in remote villages like Longuchuk, near the oil-rich Sudd marshes of Upper Nile state.

It is not just an economic concern, but a political one, as oil rich countries assess their future.

The company also has better access to oil-rich territories such as Venezuela where Western companies cannot, or will not, operate.

The bidoun forfeit the amenities that the oil-rich emirate showers on its citizens, including education.

With a fall of $100 in the oil price, oil-rich governments suddenly look as shaky as a Wall Street bank.

Militants in Nigeria have handed over weapons at a ceremony organized by the authorities in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Foreign investment remained steady. Oil-rich countries such as Angola continued to boom.

construction boom of the oil-rich states has siphoned off many skilled construction workers from Egypt, Pakistan, and India.

But following a referendum in January, the oil-rich south of his country has seceded.

The zany idea is part of an art project commissioned by the Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf state.

To secure energy for the future, tackle climate change and end violence in oil-rich areas, a cooperative approach is now required.

Not only did China design, build and launch the satellite for oil-rich Nigeria - it also provided a huge loan to help pay the bill.

In late 2007, the board of Gulf Air, the national airline of the oil-rich kingdom of Bahrain, picked Airbus for a huge sale.

James Ibori, former governor of an oil-rich Nigerian state, liked investing in Britain and putting his money in its banks.

The details of the report show how overwhelmed the fund was by all the cash pouring in to the oil-rich nation.

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia packs financial clout, but its ruling princes are ageing and absorbed by a struggle for succession.

The instability in the Arab world claimed its first oil-rich victim over the weekend with the uprising in Libya.

But officials now concede the oil-rich region faces its biggest challenge since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Their global ambitions are strengthening the hand of oil-rich nations in their negotiations with foreign oil companies.

That's how we're going to win back control of our own destiny from oil-rich dictators.

Wong cautioned there is not an immediate return on investment for mineral rich countries, as there may be for oil-rich nations.

Furthermore, oil is perverse. When prices are low, oil-rich countries welcome the low-cost, high-tech and well- capitalised oil firms.

Gration admitted there were many challenges for the referendum process, in particular in the oil-rich Abyei region.

By year's end, a scheduled referendum may deliver control of Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk to the autonomous regional government.

A close alliance with Pakistan underlines the strategic weight given to safeguarding China's supply lines to and from the oil-rich Gulf.

It has spent many years building up links with oil-rich nations in the region and financing their rapid expansion.

The Kuwait intervention is the first bank rescue in the oil-rich Gulf, which until now had seemed relatively immune to the current crisis.

Declining US power, the speed of China's rise and authoritarian rule in oil-rich Russia have tempered any residual missionary enthusiasm.

Governments in almost all oil-rich countries, from Ecuador to Kazakhstan, aretrying to win a greater share of the industry's bumper profits.

Rather, it highlights that even oil-rich nations have complex, globally connected and fragile economies.

For this and other reasons, research in economics and political science has found that democracy's advances are few in oil-rich countries.

Mr. Brown called on nations with substantial reserves like China and oil-rich Gulf states to contribute more to the fund.

The DBS contributes 60 percent of the sum while wealthy families and industrial groups from the oil-rich Gulf countries finance the residue.

Experts point out that if long-term consumption of oil rich in unsaturated fatty acids should be a better choice.

And oil-rich countries like Nigeria and Angola provide the natural resources China needs to sustain its rapid growth.

So the conflict in oil-rich Libya may now turn on who runs out of fuel first.

Yet its economy would only be the size of Qatar, a tiny oil-rich state of fewer than 2m people.

More pipelines and canals could connect oil-rich and low-population states with poor, heavily populated ones.

Enter the dragon, China, Pakistan's closet current ally, expanding its power westward towards the oil-rich Gulf.

Increasing nationalism on the part of oil-rich countries is adding to the difficulties.

Oil-rich Venezuela and Mexico are a mess; resource-poor Japan and Switzerland are not.

Oil-rich Norway has abolished a more than 100-yearold vagrancy law recently, making it legal to beg for money in the streets.

Ahvaz is in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, which has a sizable Arab population.

PR plan was already in place, paid for almost entirely by the "oil-rich sheiks " themselves.

In many nations, particularly the oil-rich Gulf States, either there has been no protest or protest has been met with violence.

The "Angolagate" trial has strained relations between France and the oil-rich former Portuguese colony.

The death of the prince, who was in his 80s, opens questions about the succession in the critical, oil-rich U. S. ally.

The chasm between rich and poor fuels militant gangs in the oil-rich southern delta and Islamist sects in the arid north.

From The Economist print edition Oil-rich Iran may have to ration petrol.

After Kazakhstan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, many hoped this oil-rich Central Asian country would pursue democracy.

Iraqi officials say much work is needed to secure and restore the port of Umm Qasr in the oil- rich province of Basra .

Many traders are worried that the unrest will spread to other oil-rich countries in the region, or lead to higher gas prices for consumers.

The capital is based in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, reflecting the emirate's outsized wealth and power in the federation.

but the north has rejected the rulings of a border commission in the oil-rich Abyei region, fearing that too much land will go to the south.

The hottest new zone for pirates is West Africa, whose oil-rich Gulf of Guinea has seen a spike in attacks this year.

Nor does this simply reflect suspicion of sovereign wealth funds from oil-rich autocracies.

If the commodities boom continues, it will leave the oil-rich Middle East with bulging trade surpluses.

The move comes as oil-rich but food-poor countries in the Middle East and north Africa explore similar options.

The Tanganyika transaction strengthens China's ties with the oil-rich Middle East.

World Bank estimates suggest that South Africa's GDP was close to $280 billion in 2007, well ahead of oil-rich Nigeria at $166 billion.

Other volatile oil-rich herbs are prepared in a similar fashion.

Port of Spain, surrounded by lush green hills, is the capital and business hub of oil-rich Trinidad.

It's not certain that divestment will persuade these firms to end lucrative deals with oil-rich Iran.

Many oil-rich states rely on them to bankroll their budgets, rather than bothering to collect any tax.

Like its domestic peers, Banco Espirito Santo controls a bank in oil-rich Angola, BES Angola.

Stephen Harper's conservative government has much support in oil-rich Alberta.

In the mind of employers in oil-rich nations, Asians present several advantages.

Bahrain is a tiny, island kingdom in the oil-rich Gulf best known for its banking prowess.

Bahrain is a tiny, island kingdom in the oil-rich Gulf best known for its banking prowess.

A wild card is what Col. Gadhafi's apparent fall from power means in other oil-rich countries.

For oil-rich countries the slump has come at a bad time.

He also paid a recent visit to oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, which seems happy to assist.

In the oil-rich and restive Niger Delta, delays could be damaging.

The oil-rich Arab states are much wealthier than any African states were in 1990.

Huge surpluses have accumulated in oil-rich states' coffers.

Many had believed Khartoum would never let oil-rich South Sudan secede.

Sesame seeds contain around 50% of an oil rich in Oleic and Linoleic Acid.

What has been said is that arming and abetting an oil-rich government that slaughters its own people makes one complicit in genocide.

It has pledged to spend $2. 2 billion exploring the potentially oil-rich Kara and $1 billion prospecting in the Black Sea.

Clark told VOA that militancy in the oil-rich region is a legitimate cause of action.

Nobody believes the official view that his oil-rich speck of a country of 500, 000-plus people in west Africa is a democracy.

Last summer he arranged an amnesty for militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

I thought it was in the "oil-rich Gulf" ?

The once-almighty dollar totters at the mercy of China and the oil-rich states.

Oil-rich nations would need to pump their profits back into U. S. and European economies.

Oil-rich Middle Eastern nations are rushing to build new nuclear plants.

It boasts a low vacancy rate and an oil-rich economy.

These problems are most egregious in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

These problems are most egregious in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Li Siguang proposed oil-rich north-east point of view, has been ridiculed secular.

Experts point out, which contains the hydriding oil-rich food is both may contain TFAS.

These are not luxury homes of the sort favored by wealthy businessman and officials from the oil-rich countries of the Middle East.

I don't know, which oil rich country needs a lesson on democracy?

Because of the oil-rich bran layer, it spoils quickly if not refrigerated or stored in vacuum-sealed bags.

And oil-rich governments had no need to borrow.

And in fact, if you see oil-rich countries, where citizens are not yet empowered, the same thing goes.

The problem is most acute in the five or six oil-rich Delta states.

Perhaps there is some trickle down of wealth from those oil rich billionaires?

An oil worker is covered in crude after a leak in the war zone that is the country's oil-rich Niger Delta.

"We know it's a pretty oil-rich area today, " Goldin said.

Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister, wants countries with big surpluses, such as China and the oil-rich Gulf states, to contribute more.

with low-protein sugar or oil-rich energy feeds.

Chad is potentially an oil rich economy.

Oil rich countries are also going in for Renewables in a big way.

Oil-rich Abyei is coveted by both the north and the south.

A senior politician said Kurds would elect a new parliament for their oil-rich semi-autonomous region in Iraq on 19 May.

The oil-rich monarchs at the other end of the region have more money to buy time.

Hence oil rich Saudi Arabia is a member.

It said all of them have links to Henry Okah, a former rebel from the oil rich Niger Delta.

Last year Nunavut's economy grew by 5. 8%, second only to that of oil-rich Alberta.

eg: Many people from oil-rich countries spend money like water.

But China and the oil-rich Gulf states have ample reason to play their part in an orderly decline of the dollar's dominance.

These are pipeline routes, which emerge from Kurdistan, which is an oil-rich region.

The potentially oil-rich Spratly and Paracel Islands, for example, are claimed in whole or part by six countries.

This is the true tragedy of "Chavismo, " because there is no reason why socialism shouldn't work in oil-rich Venezuela.

Oil-rich Kazakhstan, for example, has recently averaged annual growth of 10 per cent.

For example, it became a world leader in alternative fuel partly because it was surrounded by hostile oil-rich countries.

Nor could the leaders agree on the final status of Abyei, the chunk of land that straddles an oil-rich bit of the border

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