April 2014


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The issue of transparency and accountability in the extractive industry has been a hotly debated topic for the last decade. Merging from this debate was the formation of the Publish as You Pay civil society network which was launched in 2002 and has a global outreach. The main campaign of the network is a call for extractive companies to publish what they pay to governments and for governments to publish what extractive companies pay to them. Advocates of publish what you pay note that this information will bring transparency and accountability into a sector that is plagued by rent-seeking and high incidents of corruption.

“Creating a Culture of Transparency” is the umbrella theme that has been chosen as the mode by which bpTT has engaged and continues to engage the Trade and Economic Development Unit of the Department of Economics at The UWI, to host this internationally pitched Conference. It is the second in the conference series and focuses on revenue reporting. The aim of the Conference is to bring together international, regional and local experts on the issues of transparency and accountability with respect

• to taxes paid;
• tax revenues distributed and the use of petroleum revenues (among others);
• to strengthen the local efforts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI);
• to improve awareness of transparency and accountability issues;
• to provide the Government, the citizenry, civil society networks, academic and other such bodies with the tools needed to insist on and ensure a continued high level of accountability alongside an improvement in accountability for petroleum resources.

It takes place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port of Spain Ballroom on June 5 and 6, 2014. For further information, please contact Joel Jordan, the Department of Economics, Phone: 662-2002, ext. 83231.