Le rapport ITIE 2017 de la Guinée publié en mai 2019 confirme la dynamique expansionniste observée depuis 2014 dans le secteur minier en Guinée, tirée principalement par la bauxite qui a représenté 76% des revenus issus du secteur extractif en 2017.
A BBC investigation has concluded that a recent oil deal in Senegal showed signs of the potential for controversy and possible corruption. As a result, a businessman dogged by ethics questions will walk away with hundreds of millions. What can we learn from this unfortunate turn of events?
This post focuses on the Ruashi mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ruashi is a copper and cobalt mine in the southeastern Katanga region. The author explores the difference between payments made by the mine's operators and those that the country's mining code mandated.
Mining subcontractors are important taxpayers and drivers of economic development. But they have not received the same level of attention as mining companies do in terms of transparency, accountability or tax contributions.
In the first part of this two-part series, NRGI senior economic analyst Thomas Lassourd shares insights from publicly available EITI datasets on payments made by mining companies to the governments of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
NRGI, in partnership with the World Resources Institute, is launching a gender research project generously funded by the Open Government Partnership Multi-Donor Trust Fund.
Complex, overlapping, multitudinous and sometimes contradictory sets of regulations have created uncertainty and discouraged investment in Indonesia, according to a key ministry.
La buena gobernanza de los recursos mineros y energéticos aún no es la norma a nivel mundial. A pesar de que muchos países cuentan con grandes reservas de minerales, gas y petróleo, existe una compartida incapacidad por transformar estos recursos en desarrollo sostenible. Esta “maldición” persigue especialmente a países en África, Asia y América Latina.
Legal reform is necessary to stem a crisis in the Tunisian oil and gas sector, and reintegrating the use of a model contract for oil and gas should be part of that reform.
