Financial Transparency Coalition

Date: April 21, 2009 Location: World Bank, Washington, DC Description: Consultation Meeting on WB Policy on Disclosure of Information

Date: April 17, 2009 Location: World Bank, Washington, DC Description: Open Standards for Government Transformation: Enabling Transparency, Security and Interoperability (workshop)

A new report by the Task Force’s lead organization, Global Financial Integrity, entitled "Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2002-2006," shows that the developing world is losing an increasing amount of money through illicit capital flight each year.

The OECD welcomes recent commitments to the internationally agreed tax standard on exchange of information made by Costa Rica, Malaysia, Philippines and Uruguay.