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No one said that calculations based on gaps & mismatches in trade data or macroeconomic data was useful to their work, or referenced this in helping to understand the nature of the threats.
Barely anyone talked about tax avoidance (apart from Sol who raised this argument that it should be included in #IFFs from the floor http://www.ictd.ac/blog/why-tax-avoidance-is-illicit/ …).
It was clear that the proposed indicator to measure progress on illicit financial flows based on location of MNCs profits bore no relation to the effectiveness of these people's work to tackle illicit financehttps://www.cgdev.org/blog/proposed-sdg-indicator-illicit-financial-flows-risks-conflating-ordinary-business-dirty-money …
Yet these are common themes and foundational beliefs which often underpin discussion on #IFFs in relation to development (particularly in Africa) and especially with NGOs, foundation funders, the transparency and accountability world.
I've written lots of words on the definition and measurement of IFFs https://cfrd8-files.cfr.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Discussion_Paper_Collection_Kahler_et_al_IFFs_OR_Forstater_0.pdf …. But the basic point is: in practice people working on international tax/BEPs don't show up to IFFs conferences, and vice versa.
Here is a super short primer on IFFs for my development colleagues http://devinit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Understanding-illicit-financial-flows-in-a-development-financing-context.pdf …
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