Reports
December 8th, 2015
This December 2015 report from Global Financial Integrity, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013,” finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$7.8 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2004 through 2013, with illicit outflows increasing at an average rate of 6.5 percent per year—nearly twice as fast as global GDP.
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August 20th, 2015
This working paper from Transparency International looks at how to finance new efforts to mitigate climate change and fund the United Nations sustainable development goals. Achieving the sustainable development goals and countering climate change will require considerably more resources than what public finances alone can afford. By curbing illicit financial flows and recovering stolen assets, governments
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December 17th, 2014
This report from the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) provides the most comprehensive review of the quantity of different financing sources available to developing countries, and how they have changed over the past decade. Eurodad analyzed the best available data produced by international institutions, both from the point of view of developing countries as
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December 17th, 2014
This December 2014 report from Global Financial Integrity, “Illicit Financial Flows from the Developing World: 2003-2012,” finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$6.6 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2003 through 2012, with illicit outflows increasing at an staggering average rate of 9.4 percent per year—roughly twice as fast as global GDP. This study is GFI’s 2014
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