Draining Development? Controlling Flows of Illicit Funds from Developing Countries
The book provides the first collection of analytic contributions, as opposed to advocacy essays and black box estimates, on illicit financial flows (IFFs). Some of the chapter presents new empirical findings; others, new conceptual insights. All of...
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World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20120216001849 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2242 |
| Summary: | The book provides the first collection
of analytic contributions, as opposed to advocacy essays and
black box estimates, on illicit financial flows (IFFs). Some
of the chapter presents new empirical findings; others, new
conceptual insights. All of them enrich the understanding of
the dynamics of the illicit flows phenomenon. The book does
not offer a new estimate of the global total of these flows
because the phenomenon is too poorly understood. The
chapters are based on papers first presented at a September
2009 conference at the World Bank. Each paper had one or two
assigned discussants, and the revisions reflect the often
searching critiques of the discussants, as well as
additional comments from the editor and from two external
peer reviewers. The chapters have been written to be
accessible to non-experts. Following this introduction, the
book has five parts: the political economy of illicit
flows; illegal markets; to what extent do corporations
facilitate illicit flows? Policy interventions; and
conclusions and the path forward. |
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