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Implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Applying Early Lessons from the Field
2008
countries implementing Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and to which the World Bank's EITI team has been …The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was established as a global initiative in 2002. The EITI has … organizations, the EITI has been called a "curious coalition" by some. However, this coalition now helps drive transparency in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521424
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Implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Applying Early Lessons From the Field
World Bank - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561355
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Putting Tanzania's hidden economy to work : reform, management, and protection of its natural resource sector
2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521429
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Putting Tanzania's Hidden Economy to Work : Reform, Management, and Protection of its Natural Resource Sector
World Bank - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561348
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Nigeria Poverty : Environmental Linkages in the Natural Resource Sector - Empirical Evidence from Nigerian Case Studies with Policy Implications and Recommendations
World Bank - 2013
This study explores the international development community's understanding of poverty and illustrates how it is related to environmental degradation. the study relies on three sources: a comprehensive general literature review, a review of past donor interventions in Nigeria, and original...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559043
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Resources and Resourcefulness
World Bank - 2015
Recent studies in the DRC tend to focus on human rights abuses or on the status of women, however few investigations examine the link between mining and sexual violence. There is a dearth of research specifically into the gender dimensions of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a means to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564574
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West Africa : Community Based Natural Resource Management
World Bank - 2012
This has to be accomplished against a background of high illiteracy rates, rapidly growing populations, low and erratic rainfall, inherently infertile soils, and development strategies which have had a strong urban bias. Under such conditions, traditional production systems are unable to sustain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012555002
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Individual attitudes toward corruption : do social effects matter?
Paternostro, Stefano - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523314
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Fostering Institutions to Contain Corruption
World Bank - 2012
Corruption is bad for development. Leaving aside the morality of bribe taking, influence peddling, embezzlement, and … other abuses of power for personal or narrow group gain, corruption impedes investment and growth and exacerbates poverty … to larger collective ends includes the laws that form the core of norms and institutions. Corruption can never be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012556572
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Natural resources and reforms
Amin, Mohammad - 2009
economic reforms. The authors test this hypothesis using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business … probability of reform in the sample is 57.1 percent. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394176