Transparency International Chair Huguette Labelle presents the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, the results and ramifications.
Global Financial Integrity Director Raymond Baker gives a lecture on the issue of illicit financial flows and the impact they have on development hosted by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and the Chr. Michelsen Institute at the the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development.
Did you know that each year developing countries loose 500.000.000.000 dollars in income due to tax evasion through Tax Havens? This is ten times more money than what these countries receive each year in economical support from rich countries. This is money that could have been invested in public welfare and development in poor countries. Help us in Attac fighting Tax Havens by joining our cause!
Developing countries are currently losing US$1 trillion dollars annually – 10 times the amount they receive in foreign aid. We can change this. Tell the G20 – the world’s economic leaders – to create transparency in the international financial system. Sign the petition at www.G20Transparency.com.
Washington lobbyists and lawyers helped launder millions of dollars for allegedly corrupt African politicians and their relatives, according to a two-year-long investigation by a Senate panel.
Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? You’re not alone: People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too. While we feel the pinch in our pockets, citizens of oil-producing countries are often not seeing the profits.
Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International, presents the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a “survey of surveys”, based on 13 different expert and business surveys.
The USA topped the Financial Secrecy Index. The state of Delaware was used as an example of incorporation practice for the purposes of the research – because unlike most places surveyed the US research necessarily had to be based on both federal and state law. This short video explains some of the issues involved, many of which have been quite unsettling for commentators in the USA who have been surprised to find themselves at the centre of a debate on secrecy jurisdictions.
Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network and Tax Research LLP, explains the brand new Financial Secrecy Index. For more information see secrecyjurisdictions.com and the FSI web site.
Al Jazeera’s People & Power investigates the appropriation of natural resources by the Republic of Congo’s leaders, leaving the majority of the population to live in poverty.
In March 2009, during the run-up to the G-20 Summit in London, activists from all over Europe visited the British Channel Island of Jersey to highlight the role of tax havens in the global crisis.
Sarah Lewis, the executive director at the Tax Justice Network, discusses what the UBS settlement will mean for offshore banking on Reuters.
Half of the world's trade passes through tax havens. Right now, they are hiding billions ...
This video shows a discussion about beneficial ownership from the Task Force 2011 Conference in ...
Part 3 of 3. James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana discuss the debt problem in ...
WASHINGTON DC – South Africa announced today that it has joined the Partnership Panel of ...
February 10, 2012
LONDON - Forest dependent communities are still in the dark about how their forests are ...
February 9, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) today applauded the introduction of a bill, which ...
February 7, 2012
The yawning gap between the transparency rhetoric of companies and the reality of their actions ...
February 10, 2012
In his State of the Union address less than a month ago President Obama brought ...
February 10, 2012
When the G20 signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in November ...
February 9, 2012
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