I think many companies would like to have greater recognition of the contributions they make, the tax payments and the social payments they make. Sadly, in some cases the companies actually pay very little in tax for the very lucrative mining and oil and gas ventures that they have, and those are the companies that have been most resistant to the transparency regimes.
We have pushed to have social payments, social contributions, corporate social responsibility projects included in the EITI reports, for example, and we've been surprised to find that some of the companies that deliver these projects actually don't want them included. It leads, I think, to a not-surprising suspicion that maybe the money they're paying isn't actually benefiting the communities, but is benefiting individual political leaders or community local leaders. I think that's probably an exception rather than a rule. I think most companies that do these projects really want them to benefit the communities. But it is a very mixed picture.
If you take Zambia, for example, Zambia's big mineral wealth is not gemstones, it's copper. They have one of the biggest copper deposits in the world. They get about 9.5% of their tax revenue from copper, even though it is their single-biggest industry. They have negotiated very bad deals, and now the new government in Zambia is looking to renegotiate the terms of these deals, and surely should succeed, because it is really so imbalanced. Then they can afford to pay for their own schools and health clinics.