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Explore our publications on a wide range of topics, to find the powerful facts, stories and approaches that underpin our work to make the extractive industry more open, accountable and participatory.
Publish What You Pay Zambia 2015- 2017 Narrative Report
Detailing PWYP Zambia’s activities over the last two years. Including key activities, achievements, challenges and lessons learnt.
10 Things I Learned From Malawi’s First EITI Report
A few days ago, Moore Stephens submitted the final version of Malawi’s first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative report to the Multi-Stakeholder Group. This means I have had a chance to already read through the first report and decided over the next month to share 10 things I learned, 10 recommendations made and 10 questions I […]
Hundreds of mining, oil and gas companies reveal payments to governments for the first time, in Canada and around the world
Ottawa, Canada – June 8th, 2017 Today, Publish What You Pay-Canada welcomes the public disclosure of hundreds of reports detailing payments to governments by Canadian extractive companies. For most companies, this represents the first time these payments have been made public. “With more than 1200 Canadian-listed extractive companies operating in over 100 countries, the disclosure […]
Three years after ‘win-win’ negotiations, Niger still losing out to Areva
In 2014, Niger announced that it had successfully renegotiated uranium extraction contracts with the French multinational group, Areva. While the negotiations were hailed as being a “win-win” for both Areva and the people of Niger, analysis of newly published information from Areva has called into question if indeed the benefits are mutual. Given that it […]
Raising Global Standards of Transparency in the Extractives Sector
A guest blog by Eleni Chatzivgeri, Lynsie Chew, Louise Crawford, Martyn Gordon and Jim Haslam. The new mandatory rules for large and publicly listed extractive companies according to the EU Accounting Directive (transposed as UK SI 3209) represent a significant step forward in terms of mandatory transparency reporting for the extractives sector. Our report into […]
Taking away the tax effect of tax havens
Cross border taxation methods and reverse tax credit This report introduces the reader to a much-neglected area of international taxation, tax credits, and shows how a more active utilization of tax credits and one of its accompanying features, withholding tax, can fix some of the issues we have with multinational companies not paying taxes. In […]
PWYP condemns the arrest of Ali Idrissa
Update 20/05/2017: Ali Idrissa was released on Saturday evening. Publish What You Pay (PWYP) condemns the arrest of Mr. Ali Idrissa, coordinator of PWYP Niger and of the Niamey-based civil society organisation Rotab. Mr. Idrissa was arrested at his home in Niamey by 10 Nigerien armed policemen at 5 pm today. The arrest follows a […]
Opening Australia’s extractive data for development
Tracking Australian mining, oil and gas companies around the world is challenging. Australia has one of the largest global footprints of extractives companies operating abroad. Research by Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia and ESG research house CAER in September 2016 found that the 22 Extractives Industries Companies on the ASX 200 had a presence […]
Equatorial Guinea: Free Human Rights Defenders
2 Prominent Activists Arbitrarily Detained (April 21, 2017) – Equatorial Guinean authorities should immediately release two men who head the country’s leading human rights organization, seven human rights and transparency organizations said today. The police detained Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, who head the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID), on April 17, 2017, […]
Developing a handbook for using project-level data
Laws compelling extractive companies to report their payments to governments at the project level have been adopted in the EU, the US, Canada and Norway. The EITI has agreed to roll out project-level reporting across all 51 of its implementing countries. Early adoption of the regulations in the UK, France and Norway resulted in dozens […]
Why mandatory disclosures matter for Indonesia
The global transparency wave has reached Indonesia. Initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are bringing more transparency to Indonesia and the mandatory disclosures laws of the EU have led to more data on extractive activities in Indonesia becoming available. But the oil, mining and gas industries are still among the most corrupt […]
Is the United States getting a good deal on its natural resources? A taxing question
This case study began with a not-so-simple question: Is the United States getting a good deal for the depletion of its natural resources? Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) has worked for 13 years to open the books of oil, gas and mining companies to create a more open and accountable extractives sector. […]