Baku, Azerbaijan
2005 - 2006 IPF Fellow


Affiliation: President of the Center for Economic and Political Research and Coordinator of the NGO Coalition in support of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Baku, Azerbaijan.
e-mail: bagirov@policy.hu
website: http://www.policy.hu/bagirov/

Fellow project
2005 - 2006: Problems of good governance in extractive industries: The case of Azerbaijan
The objectives of the project are to examine and assess relevant components of good governance in Azerbaijan in general and in extractive industries in particular; analyze the risks of ineffective use of oil revenues, budget resources and the loans received by the government; prepare recommendations and analyze the potential and capabilities of the civil society to monitor the government's activity/inactivity; and write a research paper and policy study on the issue.

Working groups: Anti-Corruption Policy, The Caucasus: Conflict Prevention, Cross-Border Cooperation Outside European Union, Comparative Studies

Relevant countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan