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Displaying 596 - 600 of 1155Follow the money: a guide to monitoring budgets and oil and gas revenues
This report provides practical information on how to be an effective monitor of government earnings and expenditures.
The local politics of land and water: case studies from the Mekong Delta
This document takes a historical view of the relations between individual and collective actors in local water management in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.
Trade and conflict
This report examines the theoretical underpinnings of trade and conflict, and lays out the debate on how free trade affects conflict.
Extracting transparency: the need for an International Financial Reporting Standard for the Extractive Industries
In the light of an emerging International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) for the extractive industries - which could give a significant boost to global efforts to better account for revenues from the extractive industries - this report argues that such standards should require upstream extractive industry operators to disclose revenue payments on a country-by-country basis.Country-by-country reporting, this report argues, are crucial in achieving greater transparency, and will allow for better informed decisions about companies engaged in the extractive sector.
Beyond the rhetoric - measuring revenue transparency: home government requirements for disclosure in the oil and gas industries
This report explores direct action that home countries can take to support improved transparency of revenue flows in the extractive industries. Home countries are those which are "home" to companies either registered or raising capital within their jurisdictions.