Hilary Clinton made an extraordinary speech to the OECD on aid today. It went far beyond anything I might have expected. The whole thing is here. The
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Nick Shaxson has done amazing work on the Treasure Islands book and the Treasure Islands website. This comes from it, with permission, and shows that the
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The following letter was in the Church Times (the Church of England’s newspaper) a week or so ago (but I’ve just seen it): From the Revd Martin
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The Independent has reported today: Britain could slash its £30bn a year corporate tax avoidance industry in one swoop — and raise more money from higher tax
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As Nick Shaxson notes on his Treasure Islands blog: The April edition of the Journal of International Taxation (not available online) has a provocatively titled article
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The latest edition of The Round Table (theCommonwealth Journal of International Affairs) has a focus on small states and includes a paper by Dr Mark
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I think you know my answer to that, but I wasn’t asking. Reuters were. As they put it: Tax havens have been blamed (and lauded
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Jeffrey Sachs is not my favourite economist. There again, he’s far from bottom of the pile, and he’s notched up a fair few places this
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There has been much discussion about why UK Uncut picked on Fortnum & Mason’s for action on Saturday. I’ve already said that I think that
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