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Fresh perspectives and insights from NRGI
Contract Transparency is an Extractive Industries Success Story—But It’s Not Over Yet
8 December 2020
Risk and Reward in Ghana’s Agyapa Gold Royalties Deal: Eight Points for Consideration
1 October 2020
Enabling Resilience in Unprecedented Times
10 August 2020

The 2021 Resource Governance Index Research Process is Underway

13 July 2020
Liz McGrath, Anna Fleming
Research for the 2021 edition of NRGI's Resource Governance Index has begun. The index measures the governance of oil, gas and mining sectors in resource-producing countries and provides freely available public data to help inform evidence-based decision-making.

Africa’s New Oil and Gas Producers Must Prepare for More Disappointment in the Post-Coronavirus Era

2 June 2020
David Mihalyi, Thomas Scurfield
The road to oil and gas riches is rapidly narrowing for some new producers. The crash in prices, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, creates specific challenges for a group of "prospective producer" countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

I Read Hundreds of Pages of Africa EITI Reports. Here’s What I Found.

23 February 2018
Patrick Heller
As NRGI gathers data in the effort to improve international benchmarks of national oil company performance and revenue management, figures from Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative reports are proving extremely valuable. This is especially the case in a number of African countries where state companies do not produce detailed financial reports on their own.

Four Ways Supreme Audit Institutions and EITI Can Bolster Each Other

13 February 2018
Dana Wilkins, Edna Osei
Not enough is known about how supreme audit institutions and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative can bolster each other’s important and complementary work.

Countries Struggling with Governance Manage $1.2 Trillion in Resource Wealth

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. 

Improving OGP Action Plans: Beneficial Ownership, Contract Transparency and Environmental Data

23 March 2016
Marie Lintzer, Christina Tecson
We know how critical the natural resource sector can be for a country’s development. However, only about 10% of OGP commitments relate to natural resources. The drafting of new national action plans (NAPs) by June offers a unique opportunity to increase commitment to good governance of the oil, gas, mining and forestry industries. The OGP Openness in Natural Resources Working Group (ONRWG) has come up with three priorities...

New Petroleum Producers' Experiences Diverge as Hydrocarbon Prices Stay Low

14 March 2016
Patrick Heller

Countries where the prospects of new oil and gas production had generated significant expectations during the 2004-2014 price boom are now feeling the effects of an 18-month downward price trend.

Takeaways from EITI 2016: Contract Transparency Is Becoming Norm

9 March 2016
Paulo Cunha, Gavin Hayman, Robert Pitman
The evidence is mounting: contract transparency in extractive industries is becoming the norm. This was clear during two contract-focused events at the recent EITI conference—an informal learning and sharing side event and an official conference panel event.

New Producers Must Manage Great Expectations in a Time of Low Oil and Gas Prices

13 July 2015
Patrick Heller

The steep drop in global oil and gas prices threatens to dramatically impact countries that have staked significant economic hopes on new projects as an engine for economic development. The commodities boom that began in 2004 spurred a wave of new investments in exploration and development, as the potential value of new discoveries rose and complex projects that would have previously been uneconomical became viable.

Guinea’s Mining Reforms: A Time to Act for a "Government of Action"

14 February 2014
Thomas Lassourd, Patrick Heller

Three years after its first democratic presidential election, and just three months after its first democratic legislative election, the Republic of Guinea faces a momentous opportunity to correct the wrongs of the past, prevent future corruption, and establish a stable and attractive investment

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