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The Use of Tax Havens in the Ownership of Kenyan Petroleum Rights

10/05/2016

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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As an emerging petroleum producer, Kenya has the opportunity to use the benefits of its natural resource wealth to further economic and human development. The main factor within the government’s control that will determine the amount of potential government revenue from Kenya’s petroleum wealth is the set of fiscal (tax) terms offered to international oil […]

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Potential Petroleum Revenues for the Government of Kenya: Implications of the proposed 2015 Model Production Sharing Contract

06/05/2016

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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As Kenya establishes the terms for the future exploitation of oil deposits, one challenge is how to maximize the benefits to the country as a whole through design of the fiscal regime, and specifically production sharing contracts with oil companies. This research report looks at the current model contract and asks whether recent changes are […]

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Mapping Risks to Future Government Petroleum Revenues in Kenya: A framework for prioritizing advocacy, research and capacity building

06/05/2016

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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The loss of government revenue due to tax avoidance strategies by multinational companies has received significant attention in recent years in both developed and developing countries – it is widely accepted that the extractives sector is particularly vulnerable. Kenya has the opportunity to benefit from the lessons learned in other jurisdictions in order to maximize […]

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Briefing paper

An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped

18/01/2016

10 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to […]

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Journal article

‘Eventually the mine will come’: women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes

23/11/2015

16 pages long

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‘Eventually the mine will come’: women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes

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This article explores the experiences of women anti-mining activists in rural communities in Andean Peru and Ecuador. The article analyses women activists’ experience of negotiating conflicts with large-scale mining companies, as well as within their communities, using the concept of resilience to understand their continued commitment to this work in a context of conflict, intimidation, […]

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Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community

24/03/2015

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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For over five years, the central government has been in the process of framing and enacting new legislation to develop and regulate India’s mines and minerals. However, within the span of less than two months the NDA government published an Ordinance both introducing and passing a new version of a Bill in both Houses of […]

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The Use of Tax Havens in the Ownership of Kenyan Petroleum Rights

Potential Petroleum Revenues for the Government of Kenya: Implications of the proposed 2015 Model Production Sharing Contract

Mapping Risks to Future Government Petroleum Revenues in Kenya: A framework for prioritizing advocacy, research and capacity building

An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped

‘Eventually the mine will come’: women anti-mining activists’ everyday resilience in opposing resource extraction in the Andes

Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community