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dc.contributor.authorOfori, Jerome Jeffison
dc.contributor.authorLujala, Päivi
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-28T09:09:18Z
dc.date.available2017-09-28T09:09:18Z
dc.date.created2016-01-17T16:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationSociety & Natural Resources. 2015, 28 (11), 1187-1202.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0894-1920
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2457243
dc.description.abstractxperience shows that discovery of valuable natural resources can become a curse rather than a blessing, and transparency has been identified as key to better resource governance because it can limit opportunities for corruption and mismanagement. This article shows that information disclosure, in which many governments and donor institutions engage, does not automatically translate into transparency. Ghana has embedded transparency as one of its key principles in oil management. However, fieldwork conducted in a coastal village close to Ghana's offshore oil fields documents that people in the village lack access to information about oil revenues. The study identifies that the main barriers for acquiring information are people's lack of capacity and willingness to acquire such information. Furthermore, the government of Ghana and the villagers perceive transparency very differently: The former equates information disclosure to transparency, whereas the latter perceive transparency in terms of the development in their community.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisnb_NO
dc.titleIllusionary Transparency? Oil Revenues, Information Disclosure, and Transparencynb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber1187-1202nb_NO
dc.source.volume28nb_NO
dc.source.journalSociety & Natural Resourcesnb_NO
dc.source.issue11nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08941920.2015.1024806
dc.identifier.cristin1315085
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 231757nb_NO
dc.description.localcodeThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Society and Natural Resources on 22 Jun 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2015.1024806nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,67,10,0
cristin.unitnameGeografisk institutt
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextpostprint
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