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.
Over 1,200 delegates at the EITI Global Conference in Sydney discussed going 'beyond transparency.'
EITI's revised standard of performance requires implementing countries to release wide-ranging new information about oil, gas and mining industries.
EITI has made so much progress that it is time to focus on a new and critical element.
In its multi-faceted approach to engaging with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), Revenue Watch provides thought leadership on best practices, delivers training...
The European Union took a decisive step to counter corruption in global oil, gas and mining sectors, coming to agreement on transparency legislation under negotiation since 2011.
Iraq is rich with oil, but public debate around the oil and gas sector in Iraq is limited, and corruption has reached endemic proportions.
Hydraulic fracturing could lead the U.S. to energy independence. But there are other social and economic factors to consider.
Last week, Khazar University’s Eurasia Knowledge Hub held its routine training session entitled “Hydrocarbon and minerals: From extraction to sustainable development” for about 20 members of civil society, media representatives, representatives of government agencies, and universities.
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.
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 Dutch government indicated today it would not bow to Shell's pressure to weaken the EU's proposed disclosure rules. Norway's Statoil reaffirmed it does not support the API's lawsuit.
Oil companies should demonstrate their commitment to transparency by following the lead of Statoil in distancing itself from a lawsuit against a landmark U.S. anti-corruption measure.
The U.S. government announced the membership of the U.S. EITI advisory committee.
The U.S. has the opportunity to become a global leader not just in energy production, but in transparency in the service of sustainable economic growth and public benefit as well.
So far, the government of Cambodia has remained unreceptive to joining the transparency initiative.
Caspian countries have some of the most authoritarian and least diversified economies.
British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his support for stronger EU rules governing oil, gas and mining companies' payments to countries in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
The International Board of the EITI made uneven progress in its discussions on how to strengthen the EITI at its meeting in Lusaka, Zambia.
Ukraine's energy minister announced the formation of a multi-stakehold group, the fourth of five steps the country must take to be considered an EITI candidate country.
RWI found there to be little or no publicly available data on transit tariffs and state transit revenues in Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine and Turkey.
A current effort to reform EITI will determine how the initiative will remain relevant in this new era of transparency requirements by governments.