Financial Transparency Coalition

The 2009 conference of the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development commenced this morning at the Hilton Embassy Row in Washington, DC. After hearing from Poul Engberg-Pedersen, the Director General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and Raymond Baker, Director of Global Financial Integrity, we heard from a panel of leading experts on the issue of transfer mispricing. The panel featured Alex Cobham from Christian Aid, Jack Blum from Tax Justice Network USA, Krishen Mehta from Asia Initiatives and Raymond Baker from Global Financial Integrity. To view the complete conference agenda, click here. I'll...

The New York Times is reporting that the US Treasury has determined that developing countries need a lot more money to cope with global climate change - but the Treasury doesn't know where to find the money. The Treasury department is expected to present their findings in a paper to the G-20 in Pittsburg. From the NYT:

The paper (pdf), to be presented along with two others when G-20 leaders meet in Pittsburgh this month, calls for public financial flows "to be increased significantly beyond existing levels, starting in the near...