The recently published U.S. EITI report covers payments made and received in 2013. There is much valuable information in both the report as well as the EITI website. The report also provides detailed information on natural resource extraction governance at the federal, state, and tribal levels on the size of the extractive sector (in terms of economic output and employment), as well as a valuable assessment of the revenue sustainability in 12 resource-dependent counties. That said, there are a couple of important respects in which the report falls short. Read more
