Frank Vogl: Remarks at the Book Launch for Waging War on Corruption

Thank you for coming to this launch of my new book. Most particular thanks to Raymond Baker and his colleagues at Global Financial Integrity for organizing and hosting this event. Raymond is one of the heroes of this book. His vision, his skill and his dynamism have made and continue to make an enormous contribution to public understanding of illicit financial flows. From that understanding springs action to reduce those flows – an absolutely vital requirement to curb corruption.

Heather Lowe: Players: The Role of Facilitators and Super-Fixers

Thank you to the Center for Complex Operations and the State Department for providing me with an opportunity to speak to you here today. I have been asked to present on this particular panel because my organization, Global Financial Integrity, attempts to quantify illicit capital flight leaving developing countries and find ways to curtail that illicit capital flight.

Our definition of illicit capital flight is where the movement of money is breaking laws in either the country of original, a country of transit or the destination country. We look at how the international financial system facilitates, and indeed encourages, that illicit capital flight. Our original interest in this issue was development-based, but it has become increasingly clear to us that illicit capital flight is a serious and growing problem not only for developING countries, but developED countries as well. And it is not just an economic and development issue, it is a global stability and national security problem as well.

Norwegian State Secretary Delivers Speech At The Fourth UN Conference on Less Developed Countries

ISTANBUL – State Secretary Ingrid Fiskaa spoke at the Fourth UN Conference on the LDCs, identifying illicit financial flows due to trade mispricing, tax evasion, trafficking, the drugs and arms trade, and corruption as one of the structural causes of poverty as well as one of the major threats facing sustainable development, along with climate change, armed conflicts, and a lack of political and economic empowerment for women and girls.

Sen. Carl Levin Speech on Offshore Tax Havens and Nicholas Shaxson’s Treasure Islands

Contact: Senator Levin’s Office Phone: 202.224.6221 U.S. Senator Carl Levin Introduces Nicholas Shaxson, Author of the New Book “Treasure Islands,” at the National Press Club Full Text, Speech as Prepared for Delivery Good morning. I’d like to thank Nick Shaxson and the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition for inviting me to discuss for a [...]

Eurodad Intervention at Repsol Sharholders Assembly

Statement by Marta Ruiz, Policy and Advocacy Officer for Eurodad at the Repsol Sharholders Assembly in Madrid on April 30 2010.

Keynote Address by Senator Carl Levin at the 2009 Annual Task Force Conference

Keynote Address by Senator Carl Levin at the Conference on Increasing Transparency in Global Finance: A Development Imperative. Remarks as prepared for delivery.

Francis Fukuyama’s Remarks at the 2009 Task Force Conference

I run the international development program at SAIS, at Johns Hopkins, and for the last several years I’ve been involved in governance issues because it does seem to me that the development community has finally woken up to the importance of good governance and institutions. Obviously, the fight against corruption is a key part of this agenda. I think there is a very broad consensus that has fallen into place over the last decade or so about just how detrimental corruption is in undermining the legitimacy of democratic institutions and in impeding growth.