Research

Publications


Research output from Byblos Research & Advisory. Each publication addresses a specific market, sovereign jurisdiction, or institutional question and is supported by primary‑source citations throughout.

Forthcoming

Byblos Paper No. 21 June 202647 pp.

Sovereign Wealth Architecture for a Pre-Revenue Petroleum State

São Tomé and Príncipe's Design Window

A sequencing roadmap for operationalising São Tomé and Príncipe's Framework Law on Petroleum Revenues (Lei n.º 8/2004) before commercial discovery raises the stakes. Triangulates Norway, Timor-Leste, Equatorial Guinea, and Ghana to locate the country on three independent dimensions — design, discipline, implementation — and proposes phased reforms calibrated to pre-drilling, post-discovery / pre-FDP, and post-FDP / pre-production milestones, plus a constitutional anchor.

Sovereign WealthPetroleumSão ToméFiscal ArchitectureAfricaSmall States

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Byblos Paper No. 116 May 202641 pp.

São Tomé and Príncipe Donor Coordination Map

A consolidated reference map of the multilateral, bilateral, and regional development-finance architecture engaged with the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Catalogues active commitments from the World Bank Group, AfDB, IMF, EU, EIB, IFAD, OPEC Fund, ATIDI, GEF, Africa50, the Lusophone Compact, China, Portugal, Japan, France, BADEA, and the UN system, with named counterparts, signed instruments, and figures cross-verified against primary institutional sources.

Donor CoordinationDevelopment FinanceAfricaSmall StatesSão Tomé

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