Financial Transparency Coalition

This report looks at how poor countries have suffered from the same combination of secrecy and lax regulation that triggered the current international crisis.

Written by experts for a general readership, this provides an excellent introduction to the associated problems of capital flight, tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax competition. It discusses the policy failures that have brought us here, and proposes a range of practical solutions to this global crisis.

Mining companies routinely deprive African nations of revenue that could be used to combat poverty. This report details how Sierra Leone recently earnt only US$9-10m from mineral exports of US$179m.

Briefing paper on how 'capital flight' is diverting scarce resources away from developing countries.