The point of the abstracts is to show how different societies can be affected by the same economic factor - rising oil prices. Countries, that I am going to present in the light of this question can be divided on two categories: oil-importers and oil-exporters. The following abstracts will be guided by this division. Oil-exporters Many of these countries have their economies based mainly on oil export, which makes them highly dependent on their resources …showed first 75 words of 873 total…

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