Oxford Commodity Windfalls Study
Revenue Watch is sponsoring research at Oxford University that seeks to help countries maximize the public benefits of natural resource wealth. Most resource dependent countries face great inequality, poor measures of real savings, social development, and institutional quality.
While natural resources can be important drivers of growth, over the last quarter century few resource rich economies have had sustained investment rates. The study investigate why and how some countries were able to sustain growth. The resulting analysis and toolkit will help policymakers to properly harness resource wealth for improved development. The project pays particular attention to strategies for effective spending, and will develop case studies and an applied policy manual for maximizing the development impact of commodity windfalls through resource revenue management.
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Revenue Watch and our partners engage in increasingly diverse forms of public finance monitoring, including service delivery, participatory budgeting, and aid and expenditure tracking. Our partners are coalescing into an indigenous-led network of non-governmental organizations at the forefront of the battle against corruption and abuse of the public interest.
Grant-making is RWI's primary tool for engaging civil society in resource-rich countries and is an important means to motivate, support and build grassroots movements that create sustained local and international demand for revenue and expenditure transparency.
RWI takes a comprehensive approach to improving governance and development across the entire value chain, from the organization of extractive production, revenue generation, and revenue management, and through to the expenditure processes and national development outcomes.