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Brexit must not undermine global progress on extractive industry transparency
By a slim majority, United Kingdom citizens have voted for the UK to leave the European Union and have brought about the resignation of Prime Minster David Cameron. The UK, the European Union and much of the world look set for a period of renewed economic and political instability, rather than the steady and purposeful […]
Malawi’s Mining Fiscal Regime – have we been consulted?
On Friday 27 May 2016, Hon. Goodall E. Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, announced in his budget statement that Malawi’s “out of tune” mining fiscal regime, as he described it, will be updated. The Minister explained: I shall be presenting to this House, Mr. Speaker, Sir, a bill that aims at providing […]
Why Ukraine needs mandatory disclosures legislation
After being accepted as an EITI Candidate country in October 2013, Ukraine’s first UAEITI report was published in December 2015. The report covered the oil and gas sector, with both production and transportation, for the 2013 financial year. While it was a significant step towards more transparency in Ukraine’s extractive sector, the impact of the […]
Digging for the missing $15 billion of diamond revenue in Zimbabwe
When President Mugabe announced on his 92nd birthday, 21st February 2016, that $15 billion worth of revenues generated by the diamond industry had gone missing, the majority of Zimbabweans believed him. Zimbabwe is among the world’s ten largest producers of diamonds. It is also one of the world’s poorest countries, ranked 156 in the 2014 […]
Taking the environment into account
Today is World Environment Day, a day observed every year on June 5 to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet. There is an increasing demand for more information on the environmental impacts linked to extractive activities in order to assess their real costs, inform the debate and […]
Shell reports 2015 payments to governments using open data
In April 2016 Royal Dutch Shell became the first United Kingdom-incorporated oil, gas or mining company to submit its report to the UK company registrar Companies House under the UK’s 2014 Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations (as amended 2015). Shell’s report discloses details of payments made in 2015 to government bodies in 24 countries […]
Australia to move ahead with implementation of the EITI standard
Since becoming PWYP Australia’s National Coordinator almost a year ago, I have been frequently been asked ‘What on earth is happening in Australia?’ It’s a fair question for many of my overseas colleagues; in fact it’s a question that has been echoed by many Australians. In just five years we’ve had four Prime Ministers, numerous […]
The Panama Papers: Zimbabwe must not waste this opportunity
Zimbabwe, like many other mineral rich developing countries, isn’t seeing many benefits from the extraction of its mineral wealth. In fact, in 2015, Zimbabwe lost $500 million according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). Moreover, Africa is losing as much as $50 billion per annum to illicit financial flows. These dramatic numbers show that […]
London Summit marks progress on extractives trading transparency
Leaders and politicians from more than 40 countries, as well as business people and NGOs, joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron in London today for the Anti-Corruption Summit. Leaders included Nigerian President Buhari, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Their goal was to discuss and agree ways to jointly expose and […]
The London Anti-Corruption Summit: a key opportunity for extractives trading transparency
Government leaders gather in London this week to attend UK Prime Minster David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit. Publish What You Pay and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are calling on the UK and other participating governments to ensure that the Summit addresses one of the largest remaining areas of corruption risk in oil, gas and […]
Digging Deeper into the Panama Papers in Indonesia
The Panama Papers, with their revelation of 140 world politicians having offshore companies in 21 tax havens, have caused an uproar in Indonesia as they have exposed a number of influential people from Indonesia. The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million secret document obtained from the leak of Mossack Fonseca’s communication server. The […]
Australian Government commits to implementation of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia welcomes the announcement by the Australian Government to implement the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). “This announcement sees Australia take a positive and long overdue step to addressing transparency in the extractives sector” said PWYP National Coordinator, Jessie Cato. “PWYP Australia believes disclosure of payments made to governments is […]