There IS a lot of bullshit from Hickel. He repeats old misunderstandings of @GFI_Tweets figures that even GFI doesn't use anymore.
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"65% of illicit financial flows are commercial tax evasion" "through trade misinvoicing and transfer mispricing"
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"This is illegal, theft" "MNCs steal money by lying on their invoices" "It outstrips aid and FDI many times over"
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"They do it by shipping ballpoint pen for $1000, $4000 for kilo of toilet paper"
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This is all nonsense on stilts. Repeated misunderstandings framed with loaded languagehttps://www.cgdev.org/publication/can-stopping-tax-dodging-multinational-enterprises-close-gap-development-finance …
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It does not bear any resemblance to the actual discussions about taxing multinationals, or take into account the big problems with the old trade misinvoicing estimates
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Jason won't read this because he's blocked me, and last time I pointed this stuff out he had his boss at
@TheRulesOrg write to my boss at CGD and ask if I was a "rogue agent" https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/18/its-not-aid-in-reverse-illicit-financial-flows-are-more-complicated-than-thath …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Which is odd because when people like
@BrankoMilan and@MartinRavallion disagree with him he writes blog posts to explore their differences of opinion
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Anyway most people who have been paying on
#IFFS do now know that these figures and the way Hickel is still interpreting them are bullshit. So someone who isn't me could him could tell him.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread
("paying attention on..." ) <-- me not paying attention!
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