Family Operation

On my way downtown a few days ago, I jumped into a cab in time to catch one of the main points of a heated debate among my fellow passengers---men mainly: ‘who’ brings ‘what’ home financially and how the home dynamics could and often changes because of an increase or decrease in income earned by one spouse or the other.

Bad Governance Could Poison Oil Money

IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie believes that in the wrongs hands, oil money can be a "bad thing"

A major debate that ensued at the just ended Oil, Gas and Media Conference, organized and hosted by the International Press Institute in Baku, Azerbaijan, was governments’ use of revenues generated from the energy (oil, gas) sector.

Discussing the topic “My Country is Oil Rich, so Why Am I So Poor?” delegates and panelists at the conference called for the judicious use of oil revenue by states to avoid oil revenues becoming poisonous to the survival of the state and its people.