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The paper deals with the topic of natural resource revenue management and the institutional background, it researches the impact of the institutional environment on a particular part of resource governance, the revenue governance. The Resource Governance Index is used as the crucial concept for...
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"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...
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The European Union (EU) is aiming to strengthen its cooperation with like-minded countries to secure its supply of so-called critical raw materials. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen considers Canada a "perfect match" - a resource-rich and reliable partner that shares the EU’s...
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Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...
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countries implementing Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and to which the World Bank's EITI team has been … exposed through its involvement in supporting EITI implementation. These are "early" or preliminary lessons, because … implementation processes are evolving in most countries that have committed to EITI. Some countries have produced EITI reports, but …
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. These solutions include corruption risk mapping, subsidy registers and sunset clauses, transparency initiatives, anti-corruption … dollars between now and 2050. Due to its size, the current climate-business environment is therefore prone to corruption risks …. Yet such corruption risks are rarely explored within the research community. Much of the extant literature on energy and …
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This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing country democracies, focusing on India and Indonesia-two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. The paper argues that this litigation has been...
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corruption indicators world-wide (World Bank Institute 2006), Tanzanian stands out among those nations as having made significant … 2005) as well as a wide range of complementary studies undertaken by the World Bank and others. It de-emphasizes those … progress towards improving accountability and reducing economic leakages. Anti-corruption legislation was drafted for …
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This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi­ cation … diversification while forest and mineral resources decrease export diversification. Also, in the short run, executive corruption …, executive corruption instead mitigates the negative effect of natural resources irrespective of their type on export …
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Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...
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