Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Bishops And Extractive Industries: A Human Face Of Mining

Katherine Marshall | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Extractive-Industries, Drc, Guatemala, Nigeria, Ghana, Extractive-Industries-Transparency-Initiative, Interfaith, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

The potential coalition of leaders from different world regions and different religious traditions could do wonders for the extractive industry cause. They offer a special promise.

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Blessed by Nature, Cursed by Politics

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Commodities, Gas, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Norway, Natural Resources, Budget, Rule of Law, Africa, Oil, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Alaska, Minerals, Fiscal Policy, World News
Marcelo Giugale

The evidence is as strong as it is puzzling: countries that have a lot of natural resources -- things like oil, gas and minerals -- tend to be poorer than those that don't.

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How Tomorrow's Infrastructure Will Be Built

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Infrastructure, Gas, Decentralization, Electricity, Private Sector, Roads, Oil, Airports, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Standards, Development, Taxpayers, Results, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Ideology is being replaced by standards. Never-ending arguments about privatization, who should own the electricity company, have given way to public discussions about performance, who can avoid more black-outs.

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Prosper or Plunder? Extractive Industries' Checkered Past With Development

Rebecca Harris | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Extractive-Industry, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Civil Society, U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Obama EITI, Eiti, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Obama, World News
Rebecca Harris

The U.S. implementation of EITI is an important milestone, as for each success story of well-managed natural resource wealth lifting a country out of poverty, seemingly endless counterexamples exist.

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Economist Jeffrey Sachs makes the case for contract transparency at Annual Meetings of World Bank/IMF

Chad Dobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Contract Transparency, Social Justice, Jeffrey Sachs, Natural Resources, Economic Development, World Bank, Business News, IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, Resource Curse, International Finance Corporation, International Financial Institutions, Extractive-Industries-Transparency-Initiative, World News, Business News
Chad Dobson

Co-authored by Rebecca Harris On Wednesday, October 6, the opening of the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, economist...

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Breaking the Resource Curse: Concession Negotiation in Liberia

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raja Kaul, Capacity Building, Public Procurement Concessions Act, Resource Curse, Firestone, Karin Lissakers, Liberia, Lift Liberia Poverty Reduction Strategy, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Extractive Industry, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Concession Agreements, Revenue Watch Institute, Arcelormittal, Poverty Reduction, Peter Rosenblum, Natty B. Davis, Joseph Bell, World News
Arlene M. Roberts

Sub-Saharan Africa possesses some of the highest concentrations of natural resources. Yet, for all the mining and extraction, relatively precious few of the benefits trickle down to its citizens.

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