Extractive Industries Week- Improving Extractive Industries Benefits for the Poor

Extractive Industries Week will provide an overarching view of the key dynamics shaping extractive industries amid the current global financial crisis and volatility of commodities prices. The event will feature keynote addresses from World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick and Paul Collier, Director, Center for African Economies, Oxford University. 

Extractive Industries Week will:

• Bring together leading industry executives, policy experts, government officials, NGOs, Bank Group staff, and others for wide-ranging discussions on key forces shaping the extractive industries today
• Foster debate on best practices of transparency and good governance to maximize the development benefits for the poor
• Include presentations and debate on global experiences along the extractive industries “value chain”— from access to resources to monitoring of operations, to collection of taxes and revenues, to revenue management and distribution, and finally to the use of revenues for sustainable development

Highlights of EI Week include:

• Interventions by high level industry representatives: BP, De Beers, Vale, Norilsk Nickel, and ICMM
• Presentations by noted policy experts, senior government officials, and representatives of leading NGOs, academia, and think-tanks
• Launch of book on “Oil Price Vulnerability,” first publication in the Extractive Industries for Development Series
• Photo exhibit “The Curse of the Black Gold” from renowned photographer, Ed Kashi

Please click here to view Enhancing Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry by Dafna Tapiero of CommDev.

For more information, visit the World Bank website or contact ogmc@worldbank.org.