This 4 minute video from Open The Books / Publish What You Pay promotes the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act. According to the video description: "In many developing countries that are rich in natural resources, governments do not provide the most basic of information concerning natural resource revenues. This lack of transparency facilitates and even encourages corruption. Large sums of money that are not subject to oversight or disclosure are hijacked by corrupt leaders and are misappropriated, funding wars and inciting civil strife, diverting much needed funds from the citizens who own these resources. These citizens lack any method of recourse in holding the government accountable for their expenditures. Publish What You Pay calls for transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries and is asking Congress to introduce the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act. This bill will get much-needed information about natural resource revenues into the public domain."
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