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This paper looks at the existing criteria and types of reform adopted to allocate and use Extractive Industry (EI) revenues, and examines the political bargains that enabled such distribution. The paper focuses on four specific questions: a) how do central governments share (or distribute) the revenues from extractive industries with different levels of subnational government?; b) how do governments distribute EI revenues across extractive and non-extractive jurisdictions at the subnational level?; c) which are the mechanisms and rules adopted by governments to allocate these resources?; and d) what is the bargaining potential of subnational territories to demand a more proportionate share of revenues?