Is Transparency the Key to Reducing Corruption in Resource-Rich Countries?

By Ivar Kolstad, Arne Wiig. 2009

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact and Effectiveness of Accountability and Transparency Initiatives: The Governance of Natural Resources (2013, background): “…conclude that, if greater transparency is key to improving the governance of NR revenues, this is due to an indirect effect because transparency undermines the underlying mechanisms that reproduce the resource curse, namely, patronage and rent-seeking incentives (Kolstad and Wiig, 2009: 527).”
Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies (2010, background): “…as a means to reduce corruption in Central America has been negatively impacted specifically by misapprehensions about cultural norms, lack of education about transparency activities, and failures to create equal access to information (Brown & Cloke, 2005; Husted, 2002; Kolstad & Wiig, 2009).”
Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) (2016, background): “Kolstad and Wiig (2009).”
Redefining payments for environmental services (2012, background): “Transparency is defined as the timely and reliable provision of information to all relevant stakeholders (Kolstad and Wiig, 2009).”
Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers (2009, background): “So even initiatives that do to some extent aim to address corruption are not informed by the basic perspectives on what causes the resource curse (Kolstad and Wiig, 2009).”
The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (2013, neutral): “…interrelate in a given case is contextually shaped: for instance, greater accountability may not be achieved by transparent information alone but may require media competition, citizen capacity to process the information and the resources to act on it (Kolstad and Wiig, 2009; Fung et al., 2007).”
Promoting transparency and accountability through ICTs, social media, and collaborative e‐government (2012, background): “This is particularly true in developing, resource rich countries, where the political elite often has control of resources and resource rents, as well as control over patronage and the distribution of resources – a situation known as the “resource curse” (Kolstad and Wiig, 2009; Kolstad et al., 2009”
Breaking the resource curse: Transparency in the natural resource sector and the extractive industries transparency initiative (2014, positive): “Kolstad and Wigg (2008) examine the effects of transparency on corruption and ﬁ nd that it is necessary and yet not suf ﬁ cient for reducing corruption.”
The Politics of the Resource Curse: A Review (2020, neutral): “…(Cotet and Tsui, 2013), the spread of HIV/AIDS (de Soysa and Gizelis, 2013), international conflict and cooperation (Colgan 2010, Ross and Voeten 2012, Caselli, Roehner, and Morelli 2013), and levels of government transparency (Egorov, Guriev, and Sonin 2009, Williams 2011, Kolstad and Wiig 2009).”