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Avoiding the Resource Curse: Spotlight on Oil in Uganda / Peter Veit, Carole Excell, Alisa Zomer. World Resources Institute working paper,  January 2011, 16 p.http://www.wri.org/publication/avoiding-the-resource-curseUganda has made significant  progress in codifying the rights of access to information (ATI) and participation, and toward putting in place the institutional infrastructure, including a regulatory framework, for the  oil sector. Political roll-backs that are re-concentrating power in the  executive branch of government and the growing scale of known oil  reserves, however, may jeopardize these advances.In this context, the passage of a new law in the United States  requiring companies that fi le annual reports with the U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission (SEC) to disclose the payments they make to host  governments for the extraction of oil, natural gas and minerals, could  help shore up transparency around investment in Uganda’s extractives  industry and avoid the failures in governance that have exposed other  countries to the “resource curse.” (© WRI)