Tag Archives | Country-by-country reporting

Piketty: Diagnosing inequality and prescribing a dose of anti-corruption

25 August 2014 in Access to information, Financial Markets, Poverty and development, Private sector

It’s the blockbuster policy book of the year: Thomas Piketty’s weighty Capital in the 21st Century, a 600 plus-page analysis of the scale and perils of rising inequality. As Piketty argues, wealth and return on capital are growing faster than the overall economy and income from labour. Making matters worse, labour income is becoming increasingly […]

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What Billions In Illicit And Licit Capital Flight Means For The People Of Zambia

16 December 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Aid, Cost of Corruption, Private sector

A forthcoming report by Global Financial Integrity finds that Zambia lost US$8.8 billion in illicit financial outflows from 2001-2010

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Transparency comes calling on telecoms, banking sectors

4 October 2012 in Accountability, European Union, Politics and government, Private sector

Our recent report on corporate transparency has exposed lamentably low levels of country-by-country reporting across the business spectrum. This means 69 of the world’s biggest companies operate in India, for example, but only two disclose how much money they made there, and not one discloses Indian tax payments on their main corporate website (see the […]

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