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Natural resource extraction drives many economies in Southeast Asia, and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive sector is at historic highs.

Citizens around the world are demanding more openness from their governments.

Hon. Ilya Ponomarev is a member of the Russian State Duma for the A Just Russia party. He sat down with Revenue Watch at the December 2013 regional parliamentary workshop on extractives in Istanbul, where legislators from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Russia gathered.

Today, Indonesians will have a new president, Joko Widodo—known throughout the country by his nickname “Jokowi”—who ran on platform of reform.

With the ninth-largest proven oil reserves in the world, Libya has all the resources it needs to become the richest country per capita in North Africa. But if current trends continue, the nation of 6.5 million may well go bankrupt by 2018.

This year for the first time in its history, the World Resources Forum took place in Latin America.

The Ibrahim Forum is an annual conference that brings together some of the leading voices to discuss a range of critical issues facing Africa.