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The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Holding Economics Actors to Account
In Mozambique and much of Africa, information on the extractive industry is a closely guarded secret. In 2012, Mozambique was admitted...
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Working Paper
28 January 2019
Sound of One Hand Clapping: Information Disclosure for Social and Political Action for Accountability in Extractive Governance in Mozambique
Published by: IDS
Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work to promote accountability in the extractive sector that for a long time has seen its revenue management as being a major cause of conflict in Africa?
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28 January 2019
Beyond Information Disclosure to Achieve Accountability in the Extractive Sector
Published by: IDS
Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of revenue loss annually. Initiatives around the world have consequently concentrated on information disclosure (ID) as a means to address this problem. But under what conditions does ID work to promote accountability in the extractive sector, where revenue management has long been a major cause of conflict?