This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two c1asses ...

Information provided by insiders can contribute to the goal of reducing illicit capital flight from developing countries. It helps address one of the ...

This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes ...

Capital flight erodes the financial basis of developing countries, and the illicit financial flows are a major constraint for the implementation ...

This U4 Brief assesses how banks facilitate illicit capital flows from developing countries. The shortcomings of the existing regulatory frameworks are ...

African countries lose billions of dollars each year due to illicit capital flows related to tax evasion by wealthy individuals and companies. How does ...

Raymond Baker, Director of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System talks about the problems of illicit financial flows and the linkages between corruption, money laundering, and poverty.

This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markest within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth model. The model ...

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Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. There ...

The Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP) project investigates the effects of tax havens on the domestic revenue system, institutions and citizen ...

When Raymond Baker first went to Nigeria in 1960 for work, he was surprised to find that many local businesses made no profit. He was even more surprised ...

What is the role of the tax avoidance industry?  How can the challenges that tax havens represent be mitigated? On 21 and 22 November 2016, leading academics, ...

Several African countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world. However, capital flows to tax havens are one factor limiting ...

To combat the global problems of tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, it is vital to understand the essential role tax havens play as providers ...

The aim of the study is to: i) explore how and to what extent corruption, illicit financial flows and mismanagement of public financial resources damage ...

This paper addresses corruption in the governance of petroleum and underscores the importance of treating this problem as a result of factors that go ...

The TaxCapDev-network brings together Norwegian research institutes and university departments with projects, funded by the Research Council of Norway ...

International financial centres are geared to provide optimal conditions for the financial services industry. They encourage activities that can improve ...

Raymond Baker, head of Global Financial Integrity, discusses how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds-transfer pricing, false documentation, fake corporations, secrecy jurisdictions, and other tricks -and how these negatively affect developing countries.