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Transparency and natural resource revenue management: empowering the public with information?

In: Corruption, Natural Resources and Development

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  • Päivi Lujala
  • Levon Epremian

Abstract

Transparency and public accountability are core concepts in anti-corruption policies. This chapter on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative challenges the assumption that increasing transparency and informing the public about natural resource revenues will lead to more equitable revenue management. Policy and practice initiatives that cast people’s action, or lack of it, mainly as behavioural problems should more carefully consider how people manoeuvre within structures that may prevent collective action for change, and what can be done about it, rather than relying on the hope that transparency and public information will in themselves bring about effective forms of accountability. Keywords: Transparency, accountability, EITI, anti-corruption discourse, resource revenues

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  • Päivi Lujala & Levon Epremian, 2017. "Transparency and natural resource revenue management: empowering the public with information?," Chapters, in: Aled Williams & Philippe Le Billon (ed.), Corruption, Natural Resources and Development, chapter 4, pages 58-68, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Brunnschweiler, Christa & Edjekumhene, Ishmael & Lujala, Päivi, 2021. "Does information matter? Transparency and demand for accountability in Ghana's natural resource revenue management," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    2. Lujala, Päivi, 2018. "An analysis of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative implementation process," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 358-381.
    3. Arhin, Gerald Emmanuel, 2024. "Investigating the differential politics of competitive bidding in Ghana’s hydrocarbon and mining industries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    4. Ogbe, Michael & Lujala, Päivi, 2021. "Spatial crowdsourcing in natural resource revenue management," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).

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