Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and Petro-Authoritarianism

This document is part of the source library for NRGI's 2017 Resource Governance Index, a comprehensive measure of the quality of natural resource governance in oil, gas and mineral-rich countries. To access the full dataset and all other index resources, visit https://resourcegovernanceindex.org.

Data and Resources

Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and ...PDF
- Preview
- Download

Additional Info

Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Turkmenistan
Year	2016
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Report
RGI Sub-component	Taxation
RGI Questions	1.2.1b: How up-to-date is the publicly disclosed data on the volume of extractive resource production?, 1.2.2a: Does the government publicly disclose data on the value of extractive resource exports?, 1.2.2b: How up-to-date is the publicly disclosed data on the value of extractive resource exports?, 1.1.10a: From 2015 onwards, has the government publicly disclosed signed licences/contracts?, 1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?, 1.1.6a: From 2015 onwards, and after each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose the list of companies that submitted license applications (in the case of a first-come, first served; or negotiation round) or bids (in the case of an auction)?, 1.2a: What is the fiscal system for extractive resources?, 1.2.4a: Does the government publicly disclose data on the value of tax/payment receipts?, 1.2.4c: Is the most recent publicly available data on tax and payment receipts disaggregated by payment type?, 1.4a: What proportion of equity shares does the government own in extractive companies?, 1.4.2b: Does the SOE publicly disclose how much revenue it transfers to the government?, 1.4.9d: Does the SOE publicly disclose a list of its subsidiaries?, 1.4.8c: Does the SOE or government publicly disclose the date of the production sales executed by the SOE? , 2.1.5a: Does the government publicly disclose the level of national debt?, 2.2a: Does the central government transfer extractive resource revenues to subnational governments?, 2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?, 2.3a: Does the country have a natural resource fund which is funded by extractive resource revenues?, 2.3b: If there are multiple natural resource funds, which is the largest?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Practice
Publisher	Chatham House
Author	Annette Bohr
Source or API link	https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/publications/research/2016-03-08-turkmenistan-bohr.pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute