ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Best Practices for Budget Transparency
At its 1999 annual meeting, the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials asked the Secretariat to draw together a set of Best Practices in this area based on Member countries' experiences.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Managing Oil Wealth, Article from the IMF publication Finance and Development, March 2003

WORLD BANK

"Mining and Development: Treasure or Trouble? Mining in Developing Countries" - Report by the World Bank (PDF file)

World Bank report on Civil War and Development Policy

REVENUE WATCH PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

Learning from AMEC's Oil and Gas Asset Support Operations in the Asia-Pacific Region
This November 2004 report from Engineers Against Poverty and the Overseas Development Institute identifies a series of recommendations for engineering contractors working in the oil and gas industry, to enhance their social performance and create business development opportunities and includes a case-study on the Shell Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project.

Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia's Revival
In her September 2004 report for the Foreign Policy Center, Fiona Hill shows how strengthening Russia's energy sector for the future is now a critical issue not just for Russia, but for the much broader region of Eurasia, as well as for the primary consumers of Russian energy in Europe, Asia, and increasingly in the United States.

BBC Documentary: The Curse of Oil
BBC's Storyville series explores the relationship between oil companies, consumers and those who live where the oil is extracted.

Once more about transparency and efficiency, Echo, April 10, 2004

Oil: A Lifecycle Analysis of its Health and Environmental Impacts Published by the Center for Health and Global Environment, Harvard Medical School (March 2002) (PDF file)