Missed Their Chance To Say No to Bribery
Wall Street Journal, May-07-2012 | Letter
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.'s ambivalent portrait of the Wal-Mart of Mexico bribery scandal in his April 25 Business World column... Read More »
Research
Commentary - Global Financial Integrity
SEC Now a Year Late on Crucial Transparency Rules
TrustLaw, Apr-18-2012 | Article
Today is the one-year anniversary of the deadline for the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue the final rules for Section 1504 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act... Read More »
Tax Dodging Jeopardizes Society at Home and Abroad
by Heather Lowe, Clark Gascoigne
Huffington Post, Apr-17-2012 | Article
Highways, schools and law enforcement. Firefighters, courts and national security. These are just some of the many, essential public services that are funded by our tax dollars... Read More »
Letter to the Editor: RE: Tax Me If You Can
The New Yorker, Apr-09-2012 | Letter
James B. Stewart does such an entertaining job of illustrating the effort many of New York’s richest non-residents put into avoiding city taxes that a reader might be excused for cheering them along, just as I did with Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the similarly named movie... Read More »
IMPACT Speaker - Raymond Baker
Georgia Tech, Mar-26-2012 | Speech
Raymond Baker addresses Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff, discussing the flow of money across international borders... Read More »
Why Oil Exporting Countries Need Transparency
Huffington Post, Feb-14-2012 | Article
Corruption and secrecy in the oil, gas and mining industries takes a serious toll on developing and emerging economies. It negatively affects human rights, governance, global development and security. A provision of the new Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation shines a light on the deals that oil, gas and mining companies make with foreign governments, however oil executives... Read More »
Mitt Romney's Bermuda (tax) Holiday
by Dietlind Lerner, E.J. Fagan
Politico, Jan-20-2012 | Article
Mitt Romney’s direction of Bain Capital’s tax avoidance activities now threaten to become a major campaign issue. But how questionable are his actions? We need to ask: “What would I do if I could legally avoid paying income tax?”... Read More »
Outflows, Not Aid, Must Be Curtailed to Fight Poverty
The Huffington Post, Jan-11-2012 | Article
We learned some devastating news last month. A new study from Global Financial Integrity revealed that despite the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008, the developing world still suffered nearly $1 trillion in illicit financial outflows in 2009... Read More »
MakeTax Evasion Criminal Offence, Push for other Reforms to Combat Black Money
The Economic Times, Jan-07-2012 | Article
It is encouraging to see the zealous enthusiasm that has surfaced in India over the past few years on eliminating black money or illicit financial flows. While many other countries are taking modest steps to curtail illicit flows, India has gone ahead to make the issue one of pressing national importance. ... Read More »
Bearing Witness: Raymond Baker attacks world's "shadow" financial system
Oct-01-2011 | Speech
Raymond Baker, speaking at a Christian Aid campaigning event in Manchester, said the world's "shadow" financial system of illicit deals was costing the developing world an estimated $1.2 trillion a year. He said this was the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery. ... Read More »
