Today’s Top Stories from GFI: African dream ‘held back by illicit outflow of capital’

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Kofi Annan: Imagine An African Continent, Where Leaders Use Mineral Wealth Wisely New Draft Paper: Emerging Countries and the Taxation of Offshore Accounts “The Trend is in Our Direction.” Appeals Court Loss is Latest Setback for Oil Company Secrecy Campaign Karzai’s Ghost Money from the …

Newsletter 1/2012 English

kristyGlobal Citizen, Sustainability News

It’s the year 2012 and still more than 1.6 billion people around the world have no access to electricity. Reason enough for the United Nations to declare 2012 the “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All” . Especially Africa faces big challenges but also great opportunities. 650 million people live …