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Revenue-Sharing Regimes

Revenue sharing is an important instrument that companies may use to help promote stability. The function of revenue-sharing is to define a system for the allocation of social investments by companies and for the payments of taxes and royalties from the company to the host government. It includes equitable distribution of resources, compensation for resettlement or loss of land and strategic economic and social investment. Revenue-Sharing may help to ameliorate conflict situations.

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Conflict Prevention and Revenue-Sharing Regimes

This policy paper is a product of the Global Compact Policy Dialogue on “ The role of the Private Sector in Zones of Conflict” . It analyzes the essential factors for creating functional revenue-sharing regimes to contain socio-economic tensions that promote conflict. The report concludes with examples of current revenue-sharing regimes.

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