March 16, 2015

Are you for Big Oil or Big Data?

CSOs Put Limited Data to Good Use, Call for Project-Level Reporting What most profoundly distinguishes American Petroleum Institute (API) from civil society organizations in resource-rich countries working to make a more transparent and accountable extractives sector? (Hint: the answer we’re looking for is not “the ability to pay for an army of high-priced lawyers” – although that works too.) Put…

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May 27, 2014

The Wall Street Journal’s bogus logic on Dodd-Frank and Vladimir Putin

This post originally appeared on Oxfam’s Politics of Poverty blog. I thought I had heard every possible doomsday scenario guaranteed to result from greater transparency in the extractives sector in the nearly four years since President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law. It appears I was wrong. The WSJ’s reasoning was essentially this: by requiring oil, gas and mining…

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