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Cheap Oil for Change / Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank &#38; Sri Mulyani Indrawati is Managing Director of the World Bank Group, Project Syndicate, 9/02/2015http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/oil-price-decline-subsidies-reform-by-kaushik-basu-and-sri-mulyani-indrawati-2015-02The recent decline in oil prices is likely to have a major, largely positive impact on the global economy – even greater than most observers seem to recognize. Indeed, if governments take advantage of lower oil prices today to implement critical energy-policy reforms, the benefits may improve structural features of their economies tomorrow...