In other words, what is the dollar amount per barrel that would be required for an oil-producing country to balance its fiscal budget?
Just to put things in perspective, the difference between the two datasets often exceeds the total production of a major oil producing country like Canada.
More important, if Namibia is able to establish a viable cutting and polishing industry using its own stones, then why not every other diamond-producing country too?
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But Renard, 42, believes the oil-producing country can reproduce the form that saw them rub shoulders with the world's elite at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
Form and Forest, for example, was conceived with picturesque wooded and lakefront locations in mind, after its creators noticed that other companies mass producing country cabins that were bland and stylistically boring.
Global spare capacity has vanished so much that almost any oil-producing country, not just top producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, can cause a price spike by withholding access to its resources, BCA says.
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Then he covers every top whisky producing country in depth, especially Scotland, which he breaks into no less than 16 single malt regions, plus blended Scotches, then Ireland (whiskey), Japan, Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, India, and Australia.
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While the monied hob-nobbed around cosmopolitan London, the Black Country got grimy producing the country's wealth, and perhaps as a consequence, its citizens were regarded as dull.
But as any oil-producing developing country can attest, such profits can create problems as well as solve them.
In churning out more than 7m barrels a day, the country is producing at full throttle.
With the country only producing 2 million pounds, that leaves plenty of room for foreign suppliers to get in on the action.
As these knots of plotting schemers at the city centers were becoming bloated with sudden wealth, the producing classes of the country .
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Many pundits argue that the costs of producing goods in another country can be more expensive than doing so with local labor and facilities.
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Stretching from Macon to the Florida Panhandle, it is the second-leading peanut and timber-producing district in the country and home to the world's biggest cigarette plant.
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It remains the biggest tobacco-producing state in the country, but the amount of tobacco harvested, the number of tobacco farms and the number of people employed in tobacco manufacturing have all declined markedly.
"The '80s and '90s did terrible things to the network of producing theatres across this country, and in the last 10 years there's been an extraordinary revitalisation of ambition and range and variety of work, " she says.
Newly enamored of the country since producing documentary "Albino United" --- about an albino football team in Tanzania -- in 2010, Broomfield is shooting his next feature film in the city of Mwanza on the shore of Lake Victoria in the north-west of the country.
The country might be producing its first shale gas at scale before the current five-year plan is over.
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It appears to be the only one of 500 cashmere-producing goat ranches in the country to eke out more than a meager profit.
In California and other states, police can legally search phones even without a warrant, though courts around the country are still producing conflicting rulings on the issue.
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Cairn India's investment and exploration plans will also help raise domestic crude and gas production, which is witnessing a declining trend as most of the country's producing fields are ageing.
In addition, Spain is a country that is producing some excellent wines across all price tiers, and my very recent and very anecdotal track record at the lower-end has been very good.
Finland has four nuclear reactors producing about 30% of the country's electricity, with a fifth expected to be functional by 2013.
All of the lobbyists in Washington, DC and state capitals across the country are consuming resources without producing anything valuable in return.
But what country in the world is producing those kind of numbers?
Past Nigerian governments allowed the country's oil-producing states to keep only a tiny share of the cash they generated, but the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has promised to make amends.
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The agreement called for IBM to sell--rather than exclusively lease--its equipment, to create a subsidiary for after-sale service and to limit itself to producing no more than half of the country's punch cards.
The natural advantages which one country has over another in producing particular commodities are sometimes so great that it is acknowledged by all the world to be in vain to struggle with them.
But even so, doubts remain about how it could fully participate as a normal country in such organisations without producing the sort of economic detail it has always been unable or unwilling to provide.
This vast plant, opened last year by Botnia, a Finnish company, added 1.8% to the country's GDP while producing no evidence of the feared pollution which has led Argentine protesters to block a border bridge for the past three years, hurting Uruguay's economy.
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