NRGI’s Ten Most-Read 2020 Blog Posts

Unsurprisingly the majority of NRGI’s most-read blog posts of 2020 focused on the significant impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on natural resource governance. Topics ranged from how governments in mineral-dependent countries can respond to the pandemic, to the link between falling oil prices and increased risks of corruption.
 
The most popular post of the year addresses Ghana’s Agyapa gold royalties deal. NRGI’s Nicola Woodroffe, David Mihalyi and Nafi Chinery looked at Ghana’s plan to leverage the country’s gold royalties to raise non-debt cash to alleviate its immediate economic challenges, attracting the attention of many thousands of readers, especially in Ghana.
 
Elsewhere, NRGI’s contributors outlined the impacts of the pandemic on the Democratic Republic of Congo and considered the challenges of the energy transition for oil-rich countries. 

1. Risk and Reward in Ghana’s Agyapa Gold Royalties Deal: Eight Points for Consideration
2. Coronavirus, the Oil Crash and Economies: How Can Governments of Oil-Dependent Countries Respond?
3. Three Proposals for Mineral-Dependent Countries During the Coronavirus Pandemic
4. Le secteur minier à l’épreuve du coronavirus en République Démocratique du Congo
5. Force Majeure and Other Coronavirus-Era Legal Challenges: Lessons for Resource-Dependent Countries from the Glencore-Zambia Dispute
6. Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Resource Governance and the Energy Transition
7. Amid Market Chaos, Oil Price Plunge a Warning to State-Owned Companies
8. Coronavirus et crise économique : quelles pistes de solutions pour les pays producteurs de pétrole?
9. How Have Governments of Resource-Rich Countries Used Their Sovereign Wealth Funds During the Crisis?
10. When Oil Prices Drop, Corruption Risks Can Rise