Transparency made visible
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1652081,00.html
Making mining and oil companies accountable is a first step towards
halting exploitation
Peter Eigen
Monday November 28, 2005
The Guardian
Some of the richest countries in the world have some of the poorest
people. Their riches are in the form of oil and gas or valuable
minerals. The poverty of the many is in stark contrast to the wealth of
the few. Much is being done to increase the degree to which revenues
from drilling and mining reach ordinary people in the form of schools,
roads and healthcare. Major efforts are being made to reduce the
proportion of this extracted wealth finding its way illicitly into the
private bank accounts of national elites.
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