Interviews, background on RWI research and training events and up-to-the-minute analysis by staff and experts from around the world.
At Open for Growth (G8TTT), organized by the UK government ahead of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, was an opportunity to illustrate and debate the UK's G8 agenda for international growth, prosperity and economic development, including advancing Trade, ensuring Tax compliance and promoting greater Transparency.
Co-authored by Juan Carlos Quiroz and Marie Lintzer, the groundbreaking Resource Governance Index measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide.
Over 1,200 delegates at the EITI Global Conference in Sydney discussed going 'beyond transparency.'
On May 16, the Revenue Watch Asia Pacific team launched the 2013 Resource Governance Index: Oil, Gas and Minerals for the Public Good in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Over 200 parliamentarians from 75 countries and representatives of several CSOs and international institutions participated in the 10th Annual Conference of Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
The means of improving governance of oil, gas and mineral resources are detailed in a new textbook on energy policy, The Wiley Handbook on Energy Policy.
Secrecy still prevails in how natural resources are managed, and this conspires against economic development.
EITI has made so much progress that it is time to focus on a new and critical element.
Report authors present the Resource Governance Index to a community of activists, experts and practitioners at the intersection of transparency, accountability and development.
The ASPAC Knowledge Hub activities kicked off on May 6-7, 2013, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with the goal of improving the quality of governance in the extractive sector and to promote more equitable benefits for the citizens of the region.
Whether acting as producing or transit countries, Eastern European and Central Asian nations are increasingly important players in the oil and gas industry at the crossroad between the Eurasian markets.
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.
Iraq is rich with oil, but public debate around the oil and gas sector in Iraq is limited, and corruption has reached endemic proportions.
Switzerland ducked an important opportunity to protect against the potentially damaging effects of opaque deals between its companies and commodity-producing countries.
Hydraulic fracturing could lead the U.S. to energy independence. But there are other social and economic factors to consider.
RWI hosted a critical reading of Niger's most recent EITI report in August 2012.
Amid Venezuela's political transitions, the most important decision must be about the strategic handling of oil.
The global transparency initiative will soon require project-by-project reporting of companies' payments to governments.
The international EITI board approved changes to the status of seven countries while meeting in Oslo, Norway, on February 26 and 27.
RWI President Daniel Kaufmann spoke about four “powers” that will strengthen efforts to establish transparency as an international standard.
The story of the IMF Guide on Resource Revenue Transparency to date seems to be one of “too little of a good thing.”
During a Ted Talk, the U2 frontman called out corruption as one of the primary forces hindering faster progress towards zero poverty.
The U.S. took a big step towards greater revenue transparency with the first meeting of the U.S. EITI Advisory Committee.
The third edition of the Francophone Africa Summer School on Governance of Extractive Industries (EI) will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from August 12-23, 2013.
Semkae Kilonzo of Policy Forum in Tanzania shares five tips for creating an effective advocacy guide.