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The Rise and Limits of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

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The rise of the transparency agenda in the extractive industries and the creation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are often explained as a product of global civil society activism, as a product of corporate social responsibility or as a consequence of the emergence of good governance norms and a growing awareness among policy makers of the resource curse thesis (Haufler 2010; David-Barrett and Okamura 2013; Van Alstine 2014). This chapter argues that while all these factors did play a part in promoting the transparency agenda, the diminishing political strength of the Western extractive companies was the key factor in facilitating the rise of the transparency initiative.

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Ostrowski, W. (2018). The Rise and Limits of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. In: Raszewski, S. (eds) The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62557-7_7

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