Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161559 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/175
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper is concerned with the role of oil and gas in the development of the global economy. Its focus is on the context in which oil and gas producers in both established and developing countries must frame their policies in order to optimize the benefits of producing such resources. It begins by outlining a brief history of the issue over the last 25 years. It considers oil and gas as factor inputs, their role in global trade, the role of oil prices in the macro-economy and the impact of the geopolitics of oil and gas over the same period. The paper then considers various conventional views of the future of oil and gas in the primary energy mix, trying to explain why there is a tendency towards consensus in the different forecasts. Finally, it seeks to challenge these conventional views of the future by examining the various drivers behind them, and to show why the future may prove to be very different from what is expected and how this may change the context in which producers must frame their policy responses.
Subjects: 
oil
natural gas
energy policy
energy markets
JEL: 
Q40
Q41
Q42
Q43
Q47
Q48
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-219-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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