Guyana and the Wider World

Introduction Today’s column continues with a presentation of Envision Research’s modelling of ExxonMobil’s seeming turnaround away from the process of zombification, as I have explained this term.

Introduction As indicated last week, because of space constraints, this week’s column begins with my introduction of a Schedule that I could not have presented then.

Introduction Today’s column  treats with my support for the well-sustained  assertion to the  effect that ExxonMobil, in the second half of the 2010s and certainly all of 2020, had become a classic zombie firm, as defined in last week’s column as a business, finance and economics concept.

Introduction In an earlier column, January 16, I had intimated that this ongoing series of columns, which I have been pursuing could well turn out to be, frankly, an overly ambitious task.

Introduction Today’s column will advance the notion of happenstance, which I had introduced in last week’s, as representing the most apt explanation for Guyana’s revealed creaming curve of world-class recoverable petroleum discoveries.

Introduction This week’s column continues to advance the discussion concerning the analytical significance of Pillar A that I started last week.

Introduction Last week’s column wrapped up my rather extended revisit of the Buxton Proposal, BP.

Part 13 Introduction Today’s column [Part13] is the final  in the present series centring on my re-visit of the Buxton Proposal.

Introduction Today’s column has two broad objectives. The first is to keep the promise I made last week to start today’s column with brief comments on the current situation in regard to global climate action, specifically as manifested in this year’s United Nations Environment Program, UNEP’s,  Production Gap Report.

Introduction As I had noted in last week’s column, there are two major analytical observations that flow from my discussions of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs.

Introduction Today’s column considers the Buxton Proposal as it relates to the United Nations undertaking to pursue sustainable development via a partnership among its Member Countries.

Introduction Because of its centrality to the query — as to whether projected oil revenues are likely to be large enough and sufficiently stable to finance successfully income transfers of  the magnitude and stability required to alleviate substantially income poverty in Guyana — I need to explore more fully the workings of Government Take under the ruling PSA.

Introduction Today’s column and the next three provide a wrap-up commentary of aspects of the Buxton Proposal, which I believe have been somewhat misconstrued; whether by design or otherwise, in various public and private exchanges.

Introduction I began the discussion on the petroleum metrics and finances of the Buxton Proposal by observing that the only material change to the  data previously utilized was the computation of Government Take by the IDB in their Technical Note back in August 2020, entitled ‘Traversing a Slippery Slope: Guyana’s Oil Opportunity.’

Introduction Today’s column focuses on the finances and petroleum metrics embedded in the Buxton Proposal.

Introduction Today’s column has two primary goals. The first is to provide non-specialist readers, after five successive weekly columns, with a brief re-cap of the distinguishing elements of the Buxton Proposal.

Introduction As indicated in last week’s column,  today’s  begins with the reproduction of the list of ten key references to guide inquiring readers who may need further information on the practice of cash transfers as a poverty policy intervention tool.

Introduction In last week’s column I was able to introduce only four of the 11 reasonings, or what I have labelled as the Whys and Wherefores, which lie behind my singling out of a portion of Guyana’s windfall oil revenues for cash transfers to Guyanese households as a singularly effective policy intervention measure against income poverty.

Introduction Today’s column focuses on the third and fourth broad areas of coverage related to the Buxton  Proposal, as indicated in my first column on this topic two weeks ago.

Introduction Last week’s introductory column dealt principally with the proximate origins of the present effort to re-address the Buxton Proposal.