Illicit Financial Flows and the Regulatory Framework for Mineral Exploitation Arrangements in Cameroon
- Senegal TustAfrica and Ford Foundation 2017
- 34p.
- Illicit Financial Flows Research Series : Issue No.8 .
This a paper, in a series of research studies on Illicit financial flows published by TrustAfica with support from the Ford Foundation focusing on Cameroon, a country which has been termed Africa in miniature, as one of the leading countries in the continent in natural resources endowment and mineral resources in particular. The paper focuses on the identification of gaps in existing regulatory framework regarding critical governance benchmarks, in particular disclosure principles in mineral resources exploitation arrangements for instance, and how these can be improved upon in order to check IFFs in Cameroon. To effectively diagnose these, the contents analysis method is utilized to critically analyse regulatory provisions on disclosure related issues and other primary data from field research.
