Posts Tagged ‘extractive industries’
Task Force Reaction to G20 Communiqué
Task Force Reaction to G20 Communiqué Washington DC (Nov. 4, 2011) As international financial turmoil intensifies, G20 leaders of the world’s largest economies meeting in Cannes produced a final document that offers some limited hope for international financial transparency and meaningful action on tax evasion and aggressive tax [...]
2011 Task Force Conference Communiqué: A Message to the G20
For Immediate Release October 14, 2011 2011 Task Force Conference Communiqué: A Message to the G20 The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development released the following communiqué following its 2011 annual conference, held this year in Paris, France on October 6-7, 2011: This past week, the Task Force on Financial [...]
Excerpts from “Your Attention, Please”
by David Martin, PhD., Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc.; Batten Fellow, University of Virginia Darden School of Business In an age of media soundbites and Twitter's 140, David Martin makes the point that problems and SOLUTIONS require more depth and greater connections than most take time for. Here is an exerpt from his post on Oct. 8, [...]
IISD & G SI paper on subsidy estimation: Measuring price subsidies using the price-gap approach: What does it leave out?
In the wake of India ’s move in June to reduce its fuel subsidies, and the IEA’s announcement that US$ 557 billion was spent on fossil-fuel subsidies by 37 of the world’s economies in 2008, the measurement of subsidies is a pressing and sensitive issue – what does it include and what does it omit? (more...)
