Showing posts with label EITI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EITI. Show all posts
October 15, 2015

What if your company was so honest you could lose your job or you had to accept a lousy salary?

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Sir, Michael Skapinker writes about someone who bought a company, discovered it was engaging in corrupt practices, disclosed it to the gove...
June 12, 2014

Where could Iraq have been today if each one of its citizens was receiving his monthly oil dividend check?

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Sir, I refer to your “ The nightmare emerging from Iraq ” June 12. When you write “If Iraq is in the throes of sectarian break-up it is...
June 11, 2013

G8, by championing the Extractive Industries Transparency Directive, might be selling snake-oil-illusions

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Sir, I refer to Vanessa Houlder’s note “ Extractive Industries ” June 11, where she writes about Cameron urging his G8 partners to champion...
March 07, 2013

FT, are you making fun of us Venezuelans?

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Sir, as you well know, and as Francisco Toro writes opposite you in “ Chávez leaves a legacy of economic disarray ”, “96 percent of Venezue...
August 23, 2012

Sunshine rules might signify more darkness

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Sir, those “ Sunshine rules ” you refer to August 23, namely the Sec ordering US-listed companies to disclose the payments they make to the...
March 07, 2011

You need some warning labels on the transparency pills offered

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Sir it is not “when citizens do not know how much the governments are paid” in resource revenues that lies behind the real resource curse… i...
March 04, 2011

Openness is just a placebo when lifting a real resource-curse

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Sir, whenever a government receives in net resource revenues more than 5% of GDP, 15% of its exports, or 25% of all tax revenues received fr...
April 15, 2010

EITI, unwittingly, is an obstacle to other cursed-citizen's requests.

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Sir I refer to your Oily transparency April 15. In the debate on what to do with an oil curse the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiat...
August 19, 2009

If the net oil revenue that goes directly to government exceeds 5 percent of GDP, then oil is a curse

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Sir Moisés Naím writes that “Oil can be a curse on poor nations” August 19 and of course he is right. That said I would hold that when net o...
April 29, 2008

Force oil companies to adopt EITI principles in order to list and trade

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Sir as a cursed citizen from an oil cursed nation (I guess you have never really seen a cursed government from an oil cursed nation) I do a...