Transparency Initiative (EITI) has helped to direct attention towards this sector, which has traditionally been shrouded in secrecy … and help resource-rich countries benefit from the revenues from their soil. However, corruption indicators show that EITI … what the EITI could deliver or can it be made more effective? This paper highlights deficiencies in the way the EITI works …

initiatives as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Despite the popularity of the transparency concept, its … curse. In view of the resource curse literature, the emphasis of the EITI on revenues rather than on expenditures appears …