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on between these types of support contractors, used for defense and training, and mercenaries, who stage offensive operations on behalf of a client. Nigeria has reportedly deployed mercenaries from South Africa and elsewhere in the fight against the militant Islamist group Boko Haram. In practice, howev

only being kept out of the abyss by a debt restructure in 2012. And under that restructure it now owes money mainly to other European governments, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF. These official creditors have slashed interest rates and stretched out maturities, but not enough. With a debt stock of 175% of G

es and hundreds of thousands of people displ=ced have come to us from Syria, Iraq and Gaza, from the Central African Republi=, South Sudan, Ukraine, Nigeria and Yemen. Aid workers and journalists have b=en caught and killed in the crossfire together with the civilian population.</=pan> The total collaps

t economic activity had stagnated in France and declined in Germany and Italy. There have been some bright spots: The Spanish economy i= growing and the European Central Bank is adopting a policy that its chief, Mario Draghi, has dubbed "Whatever It Takes"—meanin= that he is willing to use all the monetary tools at his d

conditions supportive of growth. While we expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to gradually shift to a more neutral stance

November 2016 OPEC Meeting 12 m November 2016 Agreed Cut 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 -0.2 -0.4 ran raq Libya UAE Total Algeria Angola Ecuador Kuwait Nigeria Qatar Saudi Venezuela Data as of November 30, 2016. Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, OPEC. Exhibit 97: US Energy Sector Ratio of Capit

f average global demand growth— they are largely a reversal of production growth seen over the last six months (see Exhibit 96). Meanwhile, Libya and Nigeria were excluded from these new OPEC quotas given sizable domestic disruptions that have depressed their production. Recent signs of improvement, howeve