Codelco, Chile’s state-owned copper company, reports that it needs more than $20 billion for structural projects over the next decade. According to the country’s finance minister, Chile’s natural resource funds, otherwise known as sovereign wealth funds, could be asked to cough up the cash.

Most southeast Asian countries operate relatively well developed extractive sectors.

Since the massive Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine opened in the Gobi Desert in 2010, billions of Mongolian tugrugs have poured into the government’s coffers in Ulaanbaatar.

The Tunisian revolution of 2011 brought about an unprecedented boost for freedom of speech in the North African country.

In mismanaged economies, the path to government accountability and sustainability begins with transparency—but there is often resistance along the way. After all, power is at stake.

Just months after Kenya discovered commercial oil in 2012, the government called for the establishment of a natural resource fund (a kind of sov

Jean Pierre Okenda, coordonnateur adjoint de la Plateforme des Organisations de la Société Civile dans le Secteur Minier (aussi connue sous le nom de la POM) en République Démocratique du Congo, a participé à un atelier ITIE en février 2014.