What alternate universe believes Trump is anti corruption? Earlier this month, with little fanfare, the administration announced that the United States was pulling back from commitments to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a consortium that, as Reuters described, “sets a global standard for governments to disclose their revenues from oil, gas, and mining assets, and for companies to report payments made to obtain access to publicly owned resources.” The extraction sector is still widely considered the most corrupt industry in the world, and the EITI – supported by more than 50 countries and the former Obama administration – remains on of the foremost groups tasked with ending trans-national corruption. — Reuters Business News November 2, 2017.
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