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 Drilling Down: Civil Society Guide to Extractive Industry Revenues and the EITI
English
REVENUE WATCH INSTITUTE
Edited by David L.Goldwyn
Published 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9817665-0-8
"This book provides a vital easy-to-use guide on that that makes the EITI a unique initiative: the engagement of civil society in overseeing the transparency of extractive revenue management."
—ProfessorPeterEigen, Chair of EITI International Board
Drilling Down is a comprehensive guide to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international effort to improve transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector. Designed for civil society groups, governments and industry professionals participating in the EITI, Drilling Down introduces readers to all the essential topics of extractive revenue management, and provides step-by-step explanations of the EITI process and smart solutions to the most common challenges. The guide also includes exhaustive documentation from real-world examples, and worksheets to help participants manage each of the four key steps in the process.
 Economic Freedom of the World: 2008 Annual Report
English
Economic Freedom Network
James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, Seth Norton
Published 2008
ISBN: 978-0-88975-240-5
The key ingredients of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and the protection of persons and property. Economic Freedom of the World: 2008 Report provides the most comprehensive index of economic freedom available. It uses reproducible measures appropriate for peer-reviewed research.
Economic Freedom of the World has been cited in some 300 academic articles and more than 100 books. The empirical results show that economic freedom increases prosperity, causes greater civil and political freedoms, and leads to other positive outcomes.
Highlights from this year's report:
- Chile has become the first Latin American nation to reach the top 10 in economic freedom for 2006, the most recent year for which data are available. Data revisions indicate Chile made the top 10 in 2005, with its original ranking of eleventh revised to eighth.
- International ratings of the Rule of Law in the United States and Canada have declined significantly since 2000.
- Economic freedom is strongly correlated with political and civil freedoms.
- Chapter 2, a special research report, indicates that economic freedom reduces poverty. A one-unit increase in the EFW rating between 1980 and 1995 was associated with a 5.2T percentage-point reduction in the $1-per-day poverty rate.
Economic Freedom of the World is published by the Economic Freedom Network, a global network of institutes in 76 nations and territories that promotes economic freedom internationally.
 Doing Business 2009
English
by Palgrave Macmillan , World Bank
Published September 2008
ISBN: 0-8213-7609-8
Doing Business 2009 updates all sets of indicators, ranks economies on their overall ease of doing business, and analyzes reforms to business regulation—identifying identifying which countries are improving the most. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. Doing Business 2009 focuses on how complex business regulations can impact business growth and job creation.
Starting or expanding your business? Looking to expand into new markets?
Doing Business is an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs, investors, advisors, academics, professionals, and policymakers. The indicators benchmark regulation across 10 areas of a typical business lifecycle, and are used to analyze economic and social outcomes that matter such as equal opportunity, unemployment, poverty, and growth. This annually-published report gives policymakers the ability to measure regulatory performance in comparison to other economies, and learn from best practices.
What's new in Doing Business 2009?
This year's report covers 3 additional economies, bringing the total number of economies covered to 181. Now included are the Bahamas, Bahrain, and Qatar. The report also adds a preface on Doing Business methodology, as well as in-depth analysis throughout the report on the main trends and findings of the past six years of Doing Business.
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