9 November 2018
Rob Pitman, Kaisa Toroskainen
Due to the large sums of money involved, subcontracting carries risks. Procurement deals are less visible and more numerous than the high-profile processes used to award exploration and production rights, and they are harder for government regulators, the media and civil society to scrutinize. They are therefore a common node for corruption.
8 September 2017
David Mihalyi, Anna Fleming
NRGI set out to collect total oil, gas and mining revenue data for the countries included in the Resource Governance Index to find out how many dollars flow to governments that mismanage the handling of their natural resources.
5 May 2016
David Mihalyi
Let’s imagine a country with a large resource deposit. In this country, the government grants a private company license to extract it.