From a Curse to a Blessing? Transparency and Accountability in Managing High-Value Natural Resource Revenues, 2016 - Interview transcriptions

High-value natural resources, such as oil, gemstones, and minerals, are a source of unusually large rents that, without mitigating safeguards, can provide incentives for crony capitalism, patronage, corruption, and rent-seeking. Since the 1990s, the international community has attempted to improve natural resource revenue governance by promoting transparency in resource rich, developing countries. In fact, transparency has in many cases even become a prerequisite for obtaining investment, debt relief, loans and aid from donors, multinational financing institutions, and extractive industry companies.

This project has sought to (1) obtain robust empirical evidence indicating whether transparency initiatives that seek to disclose information on natural resource revenue management to the citizens are attaining their intended objective - namely, better natural resource revenue governance - and (2) to understand the obstacles in the transparency process.

The project consists of 2 data sets and qualitative interview transcriptions. This study contains the qualitative interview transcriptions.

高价值自然资源（如石油、宝石与矿产）极易产生高额租金，若缺乏有效的缓解性保障措施，将可能催生裙带资本主义、庇护主义、腐败与寻租行为。自20世纪90年代以来，国际社会始终致力于通过推动资源富集发展中国家提升透明度，优化自然资源收益治理体系。事实上，在诸多实践场景中，透明度甚至已成为获取捐助方、多边金融机构及采掘业企业提供的投资、债务减免、贷款与援助的先决条件。

本项目旨在达成两大核心目标：其一，获取稳健的实证证据，以验证面向公众披露自然资源收益管理信息的透明度举措是否达成了其预设目标——即优化自然资源收益治理；其二，厘清透明度推进过程中存在的各类障碍。

本项目包含两类数据集与质性访谈转录文本，本研究仅涵盖其中的质性访谈转录内容。