Secrecy still prevails in how natural resources are managed, and this conspires against economic development.
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Switzerland
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Switzerland ducked an important opportunity to protect against the potentially damaging effects of opaque deals between its companies and commodity-producing countries. |
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Publish What You Pay
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Open government advocate will help to guide the U.S. effort to improve reporting standards for oil and mining. |
Iraq
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Iraq is rich with oil, but public debate around the oil and gas sector in Iraq is limited, and corruption has reached endemic proportions. |
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EITI
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RWI President Daniel Kaufmann spoke about four “powers” that will strengthen efforts to establish transparency as an international standard. |
United States
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Hydraulic fracturing could lead the U.S. to energy independence. But there are other social and economic factors to consider. |
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EITI
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The global transparency initiative will soon require project-by-project reporting of companies' payments to governments. |
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The Revenue Watch IKAT-US project is a USAID-funded partnership with three Indonesian NGOs and regional civil society counterparts. |
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Venezuela
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Amid Venezuela's political transitions, the most important decision must be about the strategic handling of oil. |
Regional Hubs
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Since 2009, Revenue Watch and the Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru have held an annual workshop on oil, gas and mining issues in Latin American. |
