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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2017
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Andres Knobel © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute That is why it is important to hear and involve those that are often the most affected (developing countries), by allowing the United Nations to play a more central role. Oxfam International’s World Tax Summit...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 88–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 137–140.
Published: 01 September 2008
...William D. Hartung At first glance, the international arms trade seems to be one of those problems that will always be with us, like death and taxes. But just as life can be prolonged and tax rates can be reduced, the traffic in weapons can be reined in, given the political will to do so, as I...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 97–98.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Jeff Kelly Lowenstein; Raymond Joseph For the past year, a network of journalists from Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States have been investigating the global lottery industry. Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Raymond Joseph discuss the misspending, tax avoidance, and fraud...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 65–77.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Khadija Sharife; John Grobler Khadija Sharife, an investigative journalist and researcher on financial opacity and extractive industries, is the author of Tax Us If You Can: Africa (Pambazuka), pan-African editor at the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, and board member...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 106–111.
Published: 01 June 2018
... they operate in as people do: They have to pay their taxes, respect the environment, be responsible employers, and so on. My opposition to nationalism is an admittedly squishy one—it’s moral. I don’t believe that people of different nationalities or races or genders or what have you are all that different...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 77–81.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of dollars in lost tax revenue every year and has created an opaque system that involves the country’s most critical resource—diamonds. De Beers and the BDP have knit the political and corporate structures together in such a way that they undermine accountability and regulatory systems with a culture...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 1–6.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... The siloviki won a recent battle by- truck. And the subsequent tax claim on
blocking a merger of the two companies. TNK-BP is four years old.
But the technocrats overcame siloviki ob The energy sector is not the tax police’s
structionist tactics to swallow up another oil only target. In September, Putin...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 111–121.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and feeble strategies. Recent moves include raising the tax on liquor—which could simply force impoverished drinkers to consume counterfeit spirits—and restricting alcohol advertising, which seems unnecessary in a country where people don’t need any inducement to imbibe. alcoholism now threatens...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2015
... at the national level in some two-dozen countries. Tax credits also can support deployment of wind and solar power. Some 37 countries have national production or investment tax credits for renewable energy. Such pro-renewables policies help level the playing field with artificially cheap fossil fuels...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 116–125.
Published: 01 December 2012
... with Hollande and much of what he’s brought into the corridors of power. Especially since unemployment has only continued to rise, along with the taxes that Hollande pledged to enact in an effort to return the nation to a semblance of solvency and avoid the horrors still unspooling in Greece and looming...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to investors would routinely use this company. According to a source who previously helped manage sales for Capital Alternatives, money was being moved to tax haven entities in tranches of $7,500 to $75,000—small enough to look like high activity investment transactions. In an interview, Haddow neither...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 107–111.
Published: 01 September 2016
... now, the global standard is to ask that companies, including banks, report aggregated figures showing activity by sector or region. Detailed information showing where payments and loans are made, where profits are recorded, where losses are incurred, where taxes are paid, and the names of linked...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 74–84.
Published: 01 December 2012
... a sense of justice, to know that those who cheated on them (by hiding taxes or taking kickbacks) will never do so again. They need to know they are equals among equals, both in their own country and in the EU. More than 2,500 years ago, the reformers who opened the way toward the establishment...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 61–71.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., or income tax . Laying aside the synthetic indignation of the British tabloids, the episode was among the first to highlight the creeping regulatory power of the European Union. Six decades of integration have turned Brussels, the home of the EU’s major institutions, into the principal drafting venue...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 51–56.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the most unequal. The reason is that the tax and social benefit structure of Latin America is just as unequal as the U.S. when it comes to basic income before taxes and before benefits. But then you apply the benefits and the taxes, and you come out with a much flatter curve, with a much fairer social...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 49–58.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... And the government’s bankers have argued that a formal interna
failure to combat corruption and tax evasion tional bankruptcy regime would make it
was destroying its political and economic “too easy” for countries to default. In Ar
credibility. gentina’s case...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 71–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
... who occupy houses and live off state
20 percent flat tax. “In the labyrinth of the subsidies.” Haider’s chief ideologist, Andreas
tax state,” Haider has written, “even clear Molzer, currently the editor of the right-
heads all too easily become confused! I am wing radical weekly, Zur Zeit...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., the uproar reflects the broader collapse of Australia's 1980s and 1990s policy agendas. As Rudd's deputy, Gillard fulfilled a 2007 election promise to partly re-regulate the job market and re-empower Labor's trade union affiliates. Treasury minister Wayne Swan ignored some 100 tax reforms recommended...
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