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Digging in the dirt? Extractive industry FDI and corruption
Digging in the dirt? Extractive industry FDI and corruptionJournal Article | Aug 2013
Does corruption attract or deter foreign investment in the extractive sectors? This article presents an econometric analysis of extractive industry foreign ...
Corruption, governance, mining, quarrying, petroleum, extractive industries, Bangladesh, Angola
Stuck in Transition: Political Corruption as Power Abuse
Stuck in Transition: Political Corruption as Power AbuseBook Chapter | Nov 2019
The final chapter summarises some of the findings of the previous country analyses, against the background of the conceptual pair of extractive and power-preserving ...
political corruption, greed, power preservation, crony capitalism, blocked democracy
The Challenges of Petroleum Revenues: Ghana, Corruption, and Institutions
The Challenges of Petroleum Revenues: Ghana, Corruption, and InstitutionsBook Chapter | Jan 2013
The potential for using revenues from extractive resources for inclusive growth in Africa is tremendous. However, the realisation of the transformative ...
Corruption, resource curse, institutions, Ghana
Illicit financial flows within the extractive industries sector: a glance at how legal requirements can be manipulated and diverted
Illicit financial flows within the extractive industries sector: a glance at how legal requirements can be manipulated and divertedJournal Article | Feb 2019
The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the national, ...
Extractive industries, Corruption, Transparency, Abuse of law, Illicit financial flows
A Theory of Change for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Designing resource governance pathways to improve developmental outcomes
A Theory of Change for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Designing resource governance pathways to improve developmental outcomesU4 Issue | Aug 2020
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a major international effort to disclose information about extractive activities. Having an explicit ...
Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption
Book Chapter | Nov 2019
This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive ...
political corruption, corruption, power preservation, political economy analysis, bribery, favouritism, vote buying
The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing World
The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing WorldJournal Article | Jan 2018
The fiscal sociology literature views the state at the heart of development, but in most developing countries, formal taxation is limited. Instead, local ...
taxation, social institutions, social extraction, informal taxation, service provision
The extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?
The extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?U4 Brief | May 2014
The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector. Starting with the Kimberly Process Certification ...
natural resource management, extractive industries, oil, gas, minerals
Extractive sectors and illicit financial flows: What role for revenue governance initiatives?
Extractive sectors and illicit financial flows: What role for revenue governance initiatives?U4 Issue | Nov 2011
Countries highly dependent on natural resources are among the most severely affected by the problem of illicit financial flows. Despite a lack of definite ...
international drivers of corruption, natural resource management, DR Congo, Nigeria, Zambia
Has the EITI been successful? Reviewing evaluations of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Has the EITI been successful? Reviewing evaluations of the Extractive Industries Transparency InitiativeU4 Brief | Aug 2017
Has the EITI been successful? Many efforts have been devoted to improving resource governance through the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. ...
natural resource management
Introduction. Rethinking responsibility and governance in resource extraction
Introduction. Rethinking responsibility and governance in resource extractionBook Chapter | Jan 2012
Introduction. Rethinking responsibility and governance in resource extraction Owen Logan and John-A
Extraction, Protest and Indigeneity in Bolivia: The TIPNIS Effect
Extraction, Protest and Indigeneity in Bolivia: The TIPNIS EffectJournal Article | Aug 2013
In September 2011 Bolivian police raided an encampment of several hundred indigenous people gathered to protest the government’s plan to build a ...
Bolivia, indigeneity, extraction, protest
Can Smallholders benefit from the new market opportunities from the extractive industry in Tanzania?
Can Smallholders benefit from the new market opportunities from the extractive industry in Tanzania?CMI Report | May 2018
The recent discovery of huge oil and gas reserves in Tanzania has created a new opportunity for economic growth and development of the country. Tanzania ...
Smallholders, Food Value Chain Development, Oil and Gas, Tanzania
NFU 2007 panel debate on the EITI and workshop on voluntary initiatives and CSR
Project | Apr - Dec 2007
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Progress and Challenges(Panel debate on the EITI at the NFU 2007 conference)The EITI initiative aims to ...
Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector: The case of Equinor’s social investments in Tanzania
Gender, regulation, and corporate social responsibility in the extractive sector: The case of Equinor’s social investments in TanzaniaJournal Article | Jan 2021
Multinational corporations have been criticised for their rhetorical support to - as opposed to substantive engagement with - gender equality in their ...
Tanzania, CSR, Extractive industries, Gender
La transparence à l’état but : décryptage de la transparence des entreprises extractives
La transparence à l’état but : décryptage de la transparence des entreprises extractivesReport in External Series | Apr 2017
Ce rapport étudie les premières déclarations publiques des paiements effectués par six entreprises pétrolières, ...
Extractive industries, Transparency, Disclosure of payments, EITI
Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in Tanzania
Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in TanzaniaCMI Brief | Dec 2017
Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising to turn ...
violence, natural resources, petroleum, politics, Mtwara, Tanzania
Political corruption: An introduction to the issues
Political corruption: An introduction to the issuesCMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
Corruption is generally defined as the misuse of public authority, and political corruption is here defined as corruption in which the political decision-makers ...
political corruption
Expanding foreign investment in the energy sector: Challenges and risks for Bangladesh?
Expanding foreign investment in the energy sector: Challenges and risks for Bangladesh?CMI Brief | Apr 2014
Our recent research indicates that increased corruption brings increased foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industries. Moreover, corruption ...
Bangladesh
Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxes
Tax bargains in unlikely places: The politics of Zambian mining taxesJournal Article | Apr 2017
In developed nations, issues of taxation rank high on the agendas of political parties. In Africa’s new democracies taxation does not figure as ...
Zambia