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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.021 |
ISBN | 0305-750X |
Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). | |
Sovacool, Benjamin K; Walter, Götz; van de Graaf, Thijs; Andrews, Nathan | |
发表日期 | 2016-07-01 |
出处 | World Development |
出版者 | Elsevier |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | 179-192 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Transnational standards for disclosure have become a defining feature of global governance and sound economic development, yet little is known about their effectiveness. This study statistically explores the efficacy of such standards for the important case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international non-governmental organization which maintains a voluntary standard for revenue transparency in the extractive industries. As of November 2015, 31 countries were ‘‘EITI Compliant” and another 49 were ‘‘EITI Candidates.” In total, 49 countries had disclosed payments and revenues worth some $1.67 trillion in more than 200 ‘‘EITI Reports”, and over 90 major companies involved in oil, gas, and mining are committed to supporting the EITI. The EITI has also received support from 84 global investment institutions that collectively manage about $16 trillion in energy infrastructural assets. Moreover, the European Union, African Union, G8 and G20, and the United Nations have all endorsed the EITI. This article provides the first broad empirical examination of the EITI’s effectiveness in improving governance and economic development outcomes in its member countries using non-parametric tests, regression analysis, and data from the World Bank. We analyze the performance of the first 16 countries to attain EITI Compliance Status over the period of 1996–2014. We find, interestingly, that in most metrics EITI countries do not perform better during EITI compliance than before it, and that they do not outperform other countries. We postulate four possible explanations behind the relative weakness of the EITI: a limited mandate, its voluntary nature, stakeholder resistance, and dependence on strong civil society. |
URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60609/ |
来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468741 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sovacool, Benjamin K,Walter, Götz,van de Graaf, Thijs,et al. Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).. 2016. |
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