A comparative analysis of the divergent trajectories within the oil sector in Ecuador and Norway in the time period understood from 1970 to 2012, through a description of the development of the oil sector with its various ...

The oil sector represents a key-sector of the Ecuadorian economy, characterised by a high level of value added and a high weight in the national exports. This paper tries to find out whether the oil sector is able to induce ...

Before the COVID pandemic, oil and gas companies invested only a small fraction of their capital on sustainable energy technologies. With the substantial improvement in the performance of batteries and their rapid cost ...

The growing demand for food and biofuels urges the vegetable oil processing industry to adopt cleaner technologies to mitigate the environmental pollution caused by chemical refining processes. Over the past decade, several ...

Differential and absolute ground rent as extraordinary profit that remains permanent due to private ownership of non-reproducible conditions of production (Marx 2000) may be disputed by different classes and fractions ...

Abstract: When do oil dependent governments spend oil rents in expanding political machines through patronage and clientelism, as rentier theories claim, or in providing better public services? Using regression analysis ...

Fat and oil modification is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing sectors in food processing industry that demands novel economics and green technologies. In this connection, tailored vegetable oils with nutritionally ...