Articles

A. Our thinking

Summary

Without Intergenerational Equity, say goodbye to civilization

Minerals, oil & gas

  1. The five principles for managing the shared inheritance of mineral wealth
  2. What is The Future We Need?
  3. Sign-on letter to UNEP on Mineral Resource Governance
  4. Stop selling the family farm
Zero Loss

Zero Loss is only fair

Estimates of Loss Rates
  1. Global estimates of Loss Rates
  2. Australia’s Looting Machine
  3. The Common Wealth Destruction Machine
  4. Three shocking cases of Public Wealth destruction
Future Generations Fund + Citizens Dividend
  1. Why should all mineral receipts be saved in the Permanent Fund? (Goenchi Mati Movement)
  2. Why a Citizen’s Dividend? Why only a Citizen’s Dividend? (Goenchi Mati Movement)
  3. Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: The world watches anxiously (Rahul Basu)
  4. Asset managers: We need Intergenerational Funds (Rahul Basu)

Carbon & the Energy Transition

  1. Can Indian climate activists use our approach to minerals (YouTube, 1 hour 45 minutes)
  2. International Carbon Charge, Future Generations Fund and Dividend as a first step to a Just Transition (World Basic Income)

B. Our Campaigns

Government accounting & “shared inheritance” vs “windfall revenue”

  1. Mitigating the Resource Curse by improved Government Accounting (Goa Foundation)
  2. Government Accounting and the Resource Curse: Response to FAQs (Goa Foundation)
  3. Accounting for the Resource Curse
  4. Three shocking cases of public wealth destruction
  5. Yay! IPSASB is starting on a natural resources IPSAS

Deep Seabed Minerals in the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction

Sign-on letter on Deep Seabed mining

India

  1. Who owns title to minerals in India? (Goenchi Mati Movement blog)
  2. Minerals – Who are the beneficial owners? (Goenchi Mati Movement blog)
  3. Will India be first?
  4. India: Minerals are a shared inheritance
  5. Minerals: A shared inheritance for future generations
  6. Mining in India equals selling the family gold

Goa

Goenchi Mati Manifesto (Goenchi Mati Movement)

C. Our Advocacy

Comment on draft Background Study on the Operations of the Extractive Industries Sector in Africa and its Impacts on the Realisation of Human and Peoples’ Rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 30-Dec-2019

Comment to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Mineral Resource Governance (2020).

Comment to the United Nations Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (“Working Group”) in response to their request for input on Extractive sector, just transition and human rights, 11-May-2023

D. Academic Articles

Minerals as a shared inheritance: Accounting for the Resource Curse – Basu & Pegg, 2020, Extractive Industries & Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.08.001

Will Intergenerational Equity be Implemented? – Basu, 2020, Ecology, Economy and Society–the INSEE Journal, Vol 3 No 1, 115–118, https://doi.org/10.37773/ees.v3i1.95

Intergenerational Equity Case Study: Iron-ore Mining in Goa – Basu, 2017, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol LII No 5, 18-21

Catastrophic Failure of Public Trust in Mining: Case Study of Goa – Basu, 2015, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol L No 38, 44-51

Implementing Intergenerational Case Study: Iron-ore Mining in Goa – Basu, 2014, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol XLIX No 51, 33-37