Illusionary Transparency? Oil Revenues, Information Disclosure, and Transparency
Illusionary Transparency? Oil Revenues, Information Disclosure, and Transparency
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幻觉透明？
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2015
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Päivi Lujala
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Jerome Jeffison Yaw Ofori;Päivi Lujala
经验表明，发现宝贵的自然资源可能成为祸根，而不是福音，透明度被认为是改善资源管理的关键，因为它可以限制腐败和管理不善的机会。这篇文章表明，许多政府和捐助机构参与的信息披露并不能自动转化为透明度。加纳将透明度作为其石油管理的主要原则之一。然而，在加纳近海油田附近的一个沿海村庄进行的实地调查表明，村里的人无法获得有关石油收入的信息。研究报告指出，获取信息的主要障碍是人们缺乏获取此类信息的能力和意愿。此外，加纳政府和村民对透明度的看法非常不同：前者将信息披露等同于透明度，而后者则从社区发展的角度看待透明度。
Experience 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.