Research Catalog

Title

Follow the money : a guide to monitoring budgets and oil and gas revenues / by Jim Shultz.

Author

Shultz, Jim.

Publication

New York : Open Society Institute, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Open Society Institute.

Description

84 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Follow the Money: A Guide to Monitoring Budgets and Oil and Gas Revenues provides practical information to nongovernmental groups on how to monitor government earnings and expenditures. By detailing and disseminating monitoring information and strategies, Follow the Money aims to help lift the "resource curse" that impedes the development of many impoverished countries."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Lifting the resource curse ; 1

Uniform Title

Lifting the resource curse ; 1.

Subjects

• Finance, Public > Developing countries > Congresses
• Transparency in government > Developing countries > Congresses
• Gas industry > Government policy > Developing countries > Congresses
• Petroleum industry and trade > Government policy > Developing countries > Congresses
• Civil society > Developing countries > Congresses

Note

• "Based on the shared experiences of international budget activists and groups monitoring extractive industry revenue at a workshop organized by the Revenue Watch program of the Open Society Institute, the Center for Policy Studies at Centeral European University, and the International Budget Project, in Budapest, April 2004."

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. Civil society budget work - an overview -- III. Civil society work on extractive industry revenues - an overview -- IV. Four key factors in successful budget and revenue work -- V. Conclusion.

ISBN

1891385402

LCCN

2004057521

OCLC

• ocm56672333
• SCSB-5163438

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries