{"id":1728,"date":"2014-09-05T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","slug":"corruption-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/09\/05\/corruption-in-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption in developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.one.org\/scandal\/en\/report\/\">Trillion Dollar Scandal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New One Report which exposes corruption in developing countries.\u00a0 It argues that more than 3.5 million lives a year could be saved if the G20 cracked down on the corrupt business practices, money laundering and tax evasion that cost the world\u2019s poorest countries at least a trillion dollars a year. It focuses on use of developing countries for tax evasion by multinationals.\u00a0 See some analysis of this <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-still-dont-have-a-good-way-to-measure-global-corruption-31265?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+5+September+2014+-+1897&amp;utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+5+September+2014+-+1897+CID_c2072728cd030ae323092f4466269569&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=We%20still%20dont%20have%20a%20good%20way%20to%20measure%20global%20corruption\">report on the Conversation blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another site which has reports and data on international corruption is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/topic\/detail\/private_sector\">Transparency International.<\/a>\u00a0 See its reports on activities of multinationals.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/\">Tax Justice Network<\/a> has reports on data on tax havens and activities of multinationals.\u00a0 It also produces The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialsecrecyindex.com\/\">Financial Secrecy Index<\/a> which ranks jurisdictions according to their secrecy and the scale of their activities<\/p>\n<p>The IMF\u00a0 has some recent reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/np\/pp\/eng\/2014\/050914.pdf\">spillovers in international corporation taxation<\/a> examining the impact of tax practices on developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/ctp\/beps.htm\">OECD base erosion and profit shifting project<\/a> focuses on areas including \u00a0recommendations regarding the design of domestic and tax treaty measures to prevent abuse of tax treaties<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldis.org\/\">Eldis links to reports<\/a> from development NGOs and agencies on related topics.\u00a0 S<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldis.org\/go\/home&amp;id=45134&amp;type=Document#.VAcdM_ldXTo\">ee this 2008 paper by Christian Aid <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trillion Dollar Scandal A New One Report which exposes corruption in developing countries.\u00a0 It argues that more than 3.5 million lives a year could be saved if the G20 cracked down on the corrupt business practices, money laundering and tax evasion that cost the world\u2019s poorest countries at least a trillion dollars a year. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[114,42,235],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-economics","category-finance","tag-corruption","tag-development","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}