Revisit NRGI’s Ten Most-Read 2019 Blog Posts

NRGI’s top ten blog posts this year covered everything from macroeconomics to tax policy to gender equality – but coming in at number one is a lesson in how to detect corruption risks before it’s too late.
 
In this year’s most-read post, Alexandra Gillies shares thoughts on a BBC investigation into a murky oil deal in Senegal, where a businessman walked away with perhaps billions of dollars for doing what seemed like very little. Her list of red flags that signalled the deal wasn’t quite above board includes asset flipping, secretive offshore payments, and one of the companies involved hiring the Senegalese president’s brother.
 
Elsewhere, NRGI’s contributors weighed the risks of Kenya’s proposed sovereign wealth fund, the difficulties of taxing mining companies in Africa, and potential solutions to one of the extractive sector’s major problems: that women are more likely to be negatively impacted by extraction than men.
 
Delve into these and more in 2019’s top ten posts: 
 

1. Who Gets to Get Rich? Lessons from BP’s Senegal Payout
2. Contract, Environment, Gender, Project and Commodity Sales Data Among New Disclosure Requirements of Strengthened EITI
3. Magufuli Seeks the Right Balance for Tanzania’s Mining Fiscal Regime
4. Kenya Proposes Transparent, but Risky, New Sovereign Wealth Fund
5. Going Beyond Revenues in Extractive Sector Governance: But How?  
6. New IMF Fiscal Transparency Code Spotlights Major Extractive Sector Corruption Risks
7. New Legislation Will Bolster Ghana’s Revenue Management. Here are Four More Ways to Improve Public Oversight
8. Public Payment Data Reveal Practical Challenges in Taxing Mining Companies in Africa: A Guinea Case Study
9. An Opportunity to Walk the Talk: Making Gender Disclosure Part of the EITI Standard
10. Open Data Offers New Potential to Enhance Governance of State-Owned Enterprises