This paper attempts to clarify the links between illicit financial flows and corruption, and how corruption may be tackled by stemming ...

Countries highly dependent on natural resources are among the most severely affected by the problem of illicit financial flows. Despite a lack ...

Tax revenue can help governments finance development and decrease reliance on foreign aid. But tax-motivated illicit financial flows – ...

The relationship between anti-money laundering and anti-corruption strategies is a key issue for developing countries. Corruption and money ...

Estimates of the size of illicit financial flows have been questioned because data used to measure the phenomenon is fraught with problems. ...

The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the ...

This is a comment to the CMI Insight number 5, published November 2016. The Insight can be found here.  Comment byMatthew Salomon, 12 ...

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

Lawyer specialized in illicit financial flows and natural resources, with a focus on forest, extractive, and wildlife

While once considered solely a concern of law enforcement agencies; money laundering, tax evasion and secrecy jurisdictions are now perceived ...

The illicit financial flows (IFF) agenda has momentum, but weaknesses remain in its foundations, with the definition, measurement, and estimation ...

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.

Illegal money flows from developing countries exceeds development assistance. Tax havens are used to facilitate these illegal flows through money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion. Many of the major tax havens are European.

The most common sources of illicit financial flows are tax evasion and money laundering. Countermeasures include institution building strategies, ...

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

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

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

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) have become a high profile issue in recent years. The Sustainable Development Goals include a target (16.4: significantly ...

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.

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