November 3rd, 2015
In the past year, scandal after scandal has exposed companies using loopholes in the tax system to avoid taxation. Now more than ever, it is becoming clear that citizens around the world are paying a high price for the crisis in the global tax system, and the discussion about multinational corporations and their tax tricks remains at the top of the
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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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April 20th, 2015
This report and website looks at the way offshore financing and ownership structures have infiltrated football clubs in the England and Scotland. Offshore finance, once a niche industry confined to the basements of some of the less scrupulous banks, accountancy firms and criminal gangs has come to dominate every aspect of economic life, including sports.
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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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