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Natural Resources in Data Blog

How much and how dependent?

3/19/2020

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Natural resources offer host countries the opportunity to translate their assets into sustainable development. Having significant revenues enables governments to fund social services like health and education. But being too dependent on resource revenues also puts them at risk. The volatility of commodity prices can cause extreme shocks to their government spending especially if no systematic measures are in place for such occurrences. Hence it is important for citizens, policymakers, and journalists to ask how much government is making and how dependent are they from the sector.
Using dataset from NRGI's Resource Data, here is a visualization to help stakeholders from EITI countries a good starting point:
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    Hey there! I'm Marco from the Philippines. I write mostly about natural resource governance, open data, and good governance. 

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