Major Features of the Recent Revisions, introduced in the UN 1993 System of National Accounts, (UN 1993 SNA). By Dr. Kamil Al-Adhadh*

Download PDF A Prelude Two years ago, this author presented at the first Arab Statistical Conference which was held in Amman of Jordan, a paper, (in Arabic), (1), describing critically the UN 1993 System of National Accounts, (1993 SNA), and highlighting the ongoing revision of some of its concepts and some of its methodologies to estimate and account for certain activities a

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ISIS earning $1M per day from Iraqi oil smuggling. By By Mohammed Hussein, Christine van den Toorn, Patrick Osgood and Ben Lando

Hundreds of tankers wait to cross into Iran in one of several lots near the Parwezkhan border crossing in Diyala province, Nov 6, 2013. The fuel and oil trade has long been active. ()   TUZ KHURMATU - Since invading huge swaths of northern and central Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been smuggling increasing amounts of crude scavenged from Iraq's s

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