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Can Afghanistan Live Up To The Expectations Of The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative's Expectations And Achieve Compliant Status To Help Improve Good Governance In Its Natural Resources Sector?, Parwiz Esmati Jan 2015

Can Afghanistan Live Up To The Expectations Of The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative's Expectations And Achieve Compliant Status To Help Improve Good Governance In Its Natural Resources Sector?, Parwiz Esmati

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

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Putting The Reign Back In Sovereign, Allison Christians May 2013

Putting The Reign Back In Sovereign, Allison Christians

Pepperdine Law Review

In its first term, the Obama administration enacted two pieces of legislation, each designed to protect an increasingly vulnerable income tax base, and each of which had the potential to set a new and unprecedented course for no less than the regulation of the global economy by the nation-state. The first, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), sought to end global tax evasion through tax havens. The second, a little-noticed two-page addendum to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), sought to end the contribution of American multinationals to corruption in governance by codifying the transparency …


Transnational Business Governance And The Management Of Natural Resources, Virginia Haufler Jan 2012

Transnational Business Governance And The Management Of Natural Resources, Virginia Haufler

Transnational Business Governance Interactions Working Papers

In the last two decades, the international community has intervened directly to reduce the conflict and corruption that accompany natural resource development in weakly governed states. These efforts converge on the norm of information disclosure by a number of different transnational business governance initiatives. This article examines how the successive failures of public and private efforts led to patterns of convergence and divergence in the transnational governance of the extractive sector. The timing of the effort, combined with variation in industry structure, differences in the targets of information disclosure, and learning over time influence the outcome in each case. This …