Zambia's New Mining Tax Regime May Fail the Test of Time
4 July 2016
Extracting Trends and Truths from Oil, Gas and Mining Contracts: Text Analytics and ResourceContracts.org
7 June 2016
With Mandatory Disclosures, More Open, Granular Oil Price Data
12 August 2016

Contract Transparency, Environmental Disclosure to Feature at OGP’s Paris Summit

28 November 2016
Rob Pitman, Carole Excell
With the Open Government Partnership Global Summit coming up 7-9 December in Paris, government reformers and civil society campaigners working on the extractives and land sectors will be pleased to see that contract transparency and environmental disclosure will likely feature in the summit outcome document.

Anya Schiffrin on the State of Extractives Journalism

21 November 2016
Lee Bailey
A discussion with the director of the technology, media, and communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs about cross-border investigative journalism, big data and the changing profile of women who cover natural resources.

Tunisia EITI Commitment Big Step on Long Path To Improved Governance

21 November 2016
Wissem Heni, Wiem Melki, Carlos Monge

For years, Tunisia’s extractives sector was viewed with skepticism. Information on reserves, the rights allocation, resource revenues and their management was particularly scarce.

Debt Sustainability Challenges in Resource-Rich Developing Countries

18 November 2016
David Mihalyi
A 10-year boom in the prices of many commodities drew to a close last year. During previous booms, governments in developing countries have often squandered wealth accumulated through oil, gas and minerals, directing little of the proceeds toward effective investment or saving. When boom turned to bust, resource-rich countries were caught out, forced into debt spirals.
 

Guinée : la difficile question des prix de transfert dans le secteur minier

17 November 2016
Thomas Lassourd, Marie-Joséphine Nsengiyumva

La Guinée compte depuis des décennies sur son potentiel minier pour stimuler un développement économique durable.

Water Management, Environmental Impacts and Peru’s Mining Conflicts

7 November 2016
Carlos Monge
The protests in the Las Bambas area signal profound shortcomings in mining governance in Peru, particularly with respect to the way the national mining sector authorities handle and approve changes in mining project design and environmental impact assessments.

Natural Resource Fiscal Transparency Code Represents Important Step Toward Harmonized Global Standards

31 October 2016
Nicola Woodroffe

Since 2007, the International Monetary Fund has played a key role in setting global standards for extractive sector fiscal transparency.

From Contract Transparency to Open Contracting in Natural Resources

28 October 2016
Gavin Hayman, Rob Pitman
Secrecy around the agreements that governments strike with extractive companies for the exploitation of natural resources is a critical issue. Without access to this information, how can interested citizens be sure that the government negotiated a decent deal on their behalf, or that the company involved is paying its taxes correctly? 

El Contexto Externo y Nacional Pone en Cuestión la Estrategia Extractivista del Gobierno de Colombia

25 October 2016
Carlos Monge
La Fundación Foro Nacional por Colombia (FFNC) acaba de publicar en la ciudad de Bogotá su Quinto Reporte Anual “El Sector Extractivo en Colombia.” El reporte presenta una análisis crítico de las políticas pro extractivistas del gobierno.

Declining Investment Challenges Pro-Extraction Government in Colombia

24 October 2016
Carlos Monge
The Fundación Foro Nacional por Colombia's fifth annual report on the Colombian extractive sector assesses the government’s pro-extractive policies; presents information and analysis on the sector’s weight in the Colombian economy; discusses the performance of the new royalty system; and presents two local-level “governance agreements” experiences.