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Extractives

How much and how dependent?
Natural resources offer host countries the opportunity to translate their assets into sustainable development.
Marco Zaplan
Mar 19, 20201 min read
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How indebted are national oil companies?
As oil prices plummet, so will revenues and government transfers of national oil companies (NOCs). Should this go on, some NOCs may face...
Marco Zaplan
Mar 11, 20201 min read
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Reflections on my 5-year open extractives data journey
On my first week at Bantay Kita - PWYP Philippines back in June 2015, I was tasked to create primers using subnational data from the...
Marco Zaplan
Mar 7, 20203 min read
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Have Westerosis benefited from their natural resources?
Gold, silver, iron, and copper in Westeros has been exploited for centuries yet extraction only benefited a few great houses and their...
Marco Zaplan
Aug 17, 20174 min read
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Why we need financial modeling
Prices of oil and minerals can go really high. A country may benefit given the right fiscal regime.
Marco Zaplan
Nov 5, 20162 min read
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Making open data work for communities in the Philippines
This post was first published in Extract-a-Fact on October 13, 2016. There are two types of disclosures. One is disclosure for the sake...
Marco Zaplan
Oct 31, 20163 min read
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5+ tools every data extractor needs to know
This post was first published in the Publish What You Pay Website on October 28, 2016 Asking why we need to use data is like asking why...
Marco Zaplan
Oct 28, 20163 min read
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