The paper analyses the resource potential of the Novosibirsk Oblast and conditions, factors, and forms of its involvement in economic turnover. We calculated values of the solid commercial minerals economically important for this region. Our economic assessment of the regional resource potential...

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix investigates the sources of growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and evaluates the relative importance of productivity growth and factor accumulation. The analysis is extended to the key sectors of the economy: agriculture,...

The surge in prices and global demand for minerals and metals in the 2004–08 boom reawakened fears about the longer-term availability of minerals. Some commentators have extended the petroleum industry's debate about ‘peak oil’ to the non-fuel minerals industry. The arguments are discussed...

Many empirically observed time series, even when behaving as stationary processes (eventually after differencing), exhibit characteristics of extremely high persistence. Unit root tests and autocorrelation functions do not always provide unequivocal indications regarding long-run dynamic...