August 2016 News and Analysis from NRGI

Highlights

Natural Resources for Sustainable Development: The Fundamentals of Oil, Gas, and Mining Governance


This MOOC—massive open online course—is returning in September for its second edition. It's still absolutely free, meaning that anyone with an internet connection can benefit from instruction by some of the world’s foremost experts. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Prof. Sir Paul Collier, NRGI president and CEO Daniel Kaufmann and more than a dozen other thought leaders will take learners through an exploration of key issues like the political economy of natural resources, legal dimensions of extraction, environmental challenges, and the management and investment of revenues for sustainable development. Read more about how the first edition went here, and register for the new edition here.

Governing Extractives at the Local Level



NRGI and the Overseas Development Institute will co-host this 9 September event, which will tackle some of the key questions surrounding subnational oil, gas and mining governance. Why is working at the national level not sufficient? And what can national and subnational governments do to improve benefits for citizens? Register to attend in London or watch the livestream from anywhere.

Spotlight on data

With Mandatory Disclosures, More Open, Granular Oil Price Data
Many oil-rich countries’ governments reap huge and notoriously opaque production revenues. In the past, transparency initiatives were limited to tax payments. However, EITI reports and company disclosures are exposing more details on these deals. A growing database of incisive price data is emerging.

Blog

Oil, Order and Diversification in Libya
Over the past two decades, we have learned a lot about the “resource curse.” Libya in particular finds itself as an unfortunate case study, with a liquidity crisis and struggling institutions proving various hypotheses of scholars and policymakers around the subject.

Eurasia Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub Aids EITI Multi-Stakeholder Progress in Kyrgyz Republic
Kyrgyz stakeholders are gaining knowledge and skills to effectively address resource governance issues.

Publications

Subnational Governance of Extractives: Fostering National Prosperity by Addressing Local Challenges
Since 2008, NRGI has conducted research and implemented interventions to better understand and respond to local impacts of the exploitation of oil, gas and minerals. This paper is a synthesis of the organization's accumulated analysis and recommendations for those.

Revenue Sharing Case Study: Oil and Gas Revenue Sharing in Iraq
This study provides an overview of Iraq’s oil and gas revenue sharing, that is, the revenue that the Iraq national government earns from extraction and then redistributes to subnational—provincial and regional—governments.

Transfer Pricing in the Mining Sector
This new addition to NRGI's series of introductory primers explores how companies' use of transfer pricing can deprive resource-rich countries of much-needed tax revenues.

Five Steps to Disclosing Oil, Gas and Mining Contracts in Tunisia
Following June's Five Steps to Disclosing Oil, Gas and Mining Contracts in Tunisia, NRGI has released an Arabic-language translation of the guide.

NRGI in the news and on the web

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Myanmar urged to follow shake-up of jade industry with more action on transparency

Working Group on the Audit of Extractive Industries: SAIs Have a Critical Part in Extractives Revenue Oversight

Bloomberg BNA: East Africa Set to Continue Tax Incentives Despite Critique

Adjacent Oil & Gas: Oil and Ghana’s muddy pre-election macroeconomic picture

Devex: Alibaba's blockchain embrace: A watershed moment for financial transparency?

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