...Khadija Sharife World Policy Institute fellow Khadija Sharife investigates the tax avoidance strategies of one of the world’s biggest lottery corporations. While the company, GTech (now known as IGT), profits off the poor, it has shielded hundreds of millions in revenue from the tax man...

...Ross Benes International organizations have repeatedly deceived donors to secure ever more funding for AIDS-relief efforts. Ross Benes discusses the incentives for biomedical companies and groups like UNAIDS to mislead the public, while cheaper, more effective solutions remain underfunded. Many...

...Khadija Sharife Botswana owns a 15 percent share in De Beers, an unprecedented entangling of a sovereign country with a private company. Investigative reporter Khadija Sharife reveals a mutual dependence between the diamond giant, Botswana, and the country’s leading party that has perverted...

...Khadija Sharife Khadija Sharife analyzed the public disclosures of nine pharmaceutical companies and found that collectively they have dodged paying about $140 billion in taxes by stashing $405 billion in income in offshore tax havens. Sharife also shows that the alleged cost of obtaining a patent...

...Sam Winter-Levy; Jacob Trefethen Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will generate unprecedented opportunities, but they will also create hard-to-predict risks. Sam Winter-Levy and Jacob Trefethen argue that governments, universities, and private companies need to take notice now and begin...

... wrongdoing and alert governments about the financial state of companies, like Banco Espírito Santo, that are crucial to a country’s economic stability. This regulatory measure cannot work effectively without compulsory corporate country-by-country reporting showing transactions between subsidiaries...

...Stephanie A. Limoncelli Labor trafficking plagues international supply chains. A few countries require companies to disclose the measures they've taken to address the exploitation of workers, but when it comes to enforcing compliance, legislation often falls short. Sociologist Stephanie Limoncelli...

...Megan Garcia Companies and governments need to pay attention to the unconscious and institutional biases that seep into their algorithms, argues cybersecurity expert Megan Garcia. Distorted data can skew results in web searches, home loan decisions, or photo recognition software...

... precious metals and stones, with armed groups. And it was too difficult to tell if an individual or company was representing an armed group in Congo,” Eriksson says. “I told them I wouldn’t do this job, and my bosses said, ‘Mikael, we understand’.” But former CEO Jonas Eriksson (no relation), based...

...Khadija Sharife © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute London—James Carter, an investor who sank over $100,000 in several distressed ‘‘assets’’—carbon credits, land, palm oil—believes the companies had at least the appearance of legitimacy, or so the brokers...

... of International and Public Affairs. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Thomas Galvez Chinese Internet company Baidu recently debuted Busca, a Portuguese version of its search engine localized for Brazilian users. Though, as China’s state news agency Xinhua...

... . In characterizing Digital Taylorism as a new form of digital Legos, it’s instructive to see how the Lego company itself responded to low-cost competition, given the simplicity of manufacturing interlocking blocks of plastic. Niels Nielsen and his colleagues in a study for the Danish Technological Institute describe...

... room in an upscale its partners, hired Burmese troops to pro­ Bangkok hotel, a group of lawyers took de­ vide security for the project; the company positions from clients who had filed a civil denies that it knew about the abuse.) Ac­ suit, quizzing them on their personal histo­ cording...

..., it’s equally important to recognize that science now supports differences between the sexes. We need the leadership and innovation of men and women to cope with future challenges. On a microeconomic level, the more evenly a company’s management-board positions are distributed in terms of men and women...

... holding a bank account or creating a company or a trust in a well-respected place. Indeed, many Western first-world countries are being strategically chosen by tax dodgers and money launderers precisely because of their law-abiding history, foreigner-friendly rules, and first-rate financial services...

... Russia. However, LNG exports from the United States will be developed by private companies so it may just go to the highest bidder, which would be Japan. The sogo-shosha have also invested in American LNG export facilities and shale gas fields. Japan could work with the United States to import its...

...-Wiwa into an international icon and only increased the determination of those who fight pollution by oil companies that threatens the lives and the livelihoods of the 30 million people who call the Niger Delta home. With 48 oil fields and 93 natural gas fields, the Delta region’s recoverable reserves...

... Investigative Reporters (FAIR). © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy Institute Photo: Travis Lupick ANTWERP—Somewhere between Africa’s diamond mines and the dazzling diamond bazaars of Dubai and Antwerp, a Belgian company called Omega Diamonds has constructed a financial...

... the Soviet Union excelled, it also fell short. Today, it’s entirely possibly for a reasonably adept individual in Russia to reach a banned site using TOR (The Onion Router, free software enabling anonymous Internet access), or even the Google Translate service. It is the cooperation of Internet companies...

.... Those who can access the Internet do so through heavily monitored cybercafés. They must navigate censorship blocking overseas dissident websites, and face pervasive surveillance thanks to technologies purchased not only from Chinese companies but from European firms like FinFisher, a German company...