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NRGI’s Top 10 Blog Posts in 2016

13 December 2016
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Beneficial ownershipCivic spaceCommodity pricesContract transparency and monitoringCorruptionEconomic diversificationGlobal initiativesLegislation and regulationLicensing and negotiationMandatory payment disclosureMeasurement of governanceMeasurement of environmental and social impactsOpen dataRevenue managementRevenue sharingSovereign wealth fundsState-owned enterprisesSubnational governanceTax policy and revenue collection
Countries
AzerbaijanGhanaLibyaMexicoTanzaniaUnited KingdomUnited StatesZambia
Stakeholders
Civil society actorsGovernment officialsJournalists and mediaParliaments and political partiesPrivate sector
Precepts
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 What are Natural Resource Charter precepts?
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NRGI’s blog—which showcases the breadth of expertise of a global team and delves into the most pressing issues in resource governance—received thousands of unique visits this year.

Readers favored detailed long-reads posing provocative and original questions, analytical pieces on highly complex topics and output tied to breaking news and global events in the transparency space. These included posts testing a model for monitoring Ghanaian oil revenue, parsing Zambia’s new mining tax regime, and linking the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to the massive Panama Papers leak. Three of the most-read posts concerned the Anti-Corruption Summit held in London in May.

As 2016 draws to a close, read—or reread—this collection of NRGI’s most popular editorial output, starting with the most-visited post.

1. An Analysis of Ghana's 2015 Oil Revenue Performance: Testing the Model

2. Zambia's New Mining Tax Regime May Fail the Test of Time

3. How the Panama Papers, EITI and a Global Register Could Change the Policy Impact of Beneficial Ownership Data

4. What You Didn't Hear About EITI Last Week: Six New Elements of the 2016 Standard and Their Potential for Impact

5. Might the U.K. and the U.S. Exhibit Leadership in Addressing State Capture and Legal (as well as Illegal) Corruption?

6. Oil, Order and Diversification in Libya

7. Summit Supercharges Anticorruption Work, But We Must Aim Higher

8. Paradox of Plenty, Redux: Azerbaijan Grapples with Low Oil Prices

9. Extracting Trends and Truths from Oil, Gas and Mining Contracts: Text Analytics and ResourceContracts.org

10. Who Committed to What in Extractives at the U.K. Anti-Corruption Summit?

And three of NRGI’s most-read blogs in 2016 showed a curiously long shelf life: they were published in 2015. They are:

  • Did the U.K. Miss Out on £400 Billion Worth of Oil Revenue?
  • Six Reasons Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Should Not Invest or Spend at Home
  • Ghana's Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill: Steps Forward, But Room for Improvement

Click here to view NRGI’s most-read blogs in 2015.

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    Global initiatives
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    Mandatory payment disclosure
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