Oil, Gas and Minerals for the Public Good: The Revenue Watch 2013 Resource Governance Index
~ 8 May 2013
Trillions of dollars in resources lie buried in the backyards of many of the world’s poorest citizens. Oil, gas and minerals can, if managed effectively and accountably, stimulate economic development. Too often, however, secrecy, corruption and weak institutions obstruct this path.
Resource Revenue Management in Venezuela: A Consumption-Based Poverty Reduction Strategy
~ 6 March 2013
This report, commissioned in 2012, details how Hugo Chávez's program to reduce poverty with oil revenues is unsustainable.
A series of scoping studies to increase our collective understanding of these economies in the oil, gas and mining sectors.
In 2008, RWI designed a project to address the enormous governance challenges facing regional and local governments in Peru.
This analysis outlines the bill's failure to offer a clear path to more effective management of Nigeria's state-owned oil enterprise.
In the first report on oil and gas transit revenues in four Black Sea and Balkan countries, Revenue Watch found there to be little or no publicly available data on transit tariffs and state transit revenues in Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine and Turkey, and urged governments to make the information public.
Fact Sheets
How do the claims of opponents of disclosure requirements compare with the facts?
Revenue Watch has advised the Government of Guinea since early 2011 on various elements of its mining sector reform.
To advance local economic and social development, RWI works with governments, civil society, journalists and companies.