Can Transparency Transform Mineral Wealth into Wellbeing?

Revenue Watch: This paper provides a critical assessment of the linkages between minerals governance and economic development in the Maghreb and Middle East. We attempt to disentangle four critical dimensions of resource governance in the region:
• The nexus between resource governance and economic development in the Maghreb
• The linkages between weak minerals governance and the Arab Spring
• The role of State Owned Enterprises in the minerals sector in engineering more systemic reforms.
• The challenges of strengthening natural resource funds governance to facilitate regionalization in the Maghreb
The paper relies on the Revenue Watch Index 20122 – a systematic initiative to compare the strengths and shortcomings of natural resource management in 58 countries- to assess minerals governance in the Maghreb and formulate policy options for reform.