Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 39

26-September-2005

MAURITANIA

Mauritania Signs Up To Transparency Initiative

Mauritanias new government, the Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) on 20 September announced that it had signed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the anti-corruption measure for developing countries introduced by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair during the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. The implementation of these...