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    1. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      Periodic reminder @Oxfam "developing countries" =/= "low income countries (and you know this). Taxes raised in China and Brazil will not be spent on education in Malawi and Nepal. It is misleading to make this comparison https://twitter.com/JohanLangerock/status/1174671954734985218 …pic.twitter.com/RuXcFmNkk7

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    2. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      Not sure what you are doing here? $100 bn is *double* not *half* the estimated cost of reaching education targets in low income countries. But of course the maths is nonsense, anyway because the two numbers relate to two completely different sets of countries.pic.twitter.com/b9nII1U2Pu

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    3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      The UNESCO doc u use https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000232197 … does give a figure for low & lower mid income countries $339bn (but again the $100 bn estimate which comes from UNCTAD does not just relate to LICs & LMICs - but all UN developing economies incl Turkey, S Africa, Mexico, China etc..)pic.twitter.com/VPQtDfqPpB

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    4. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      School children doing secondary level maths, given this data would be able to work out that this is not a coherent comparison. Why keep using it? @JohanLangerock ?

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    5. Johan Langerock‏ @JohanLangerock Sep 19
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      Thanks for your feedback Maya. Problem still is: we lack robust figures for tax avoidance. The 100billion is actually a conservative estimate, there have been more estimates out there which are much higher (including IMF & others).

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    6. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      No sorry. "we lack robust figures" is not an excuse to bait-and-switch the countries to which the estimates relate $s which relates to China, India, Brazil Turkey etc.. cannot be the answer to education funding gap in "low income countries" because they are not the same countries

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    7. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      We DO have robust definitions for the countries that these estimates relate to. It is not a 'conservative' to mix and match them based on wishful thinking (and I don't think the $100 bn estimate is conservative, certainly i'd be careful with the IMF one https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-big-transfer-pricing-prize-development …)

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    8. Johan Langerock‏ @JohanLangerock Sep 19
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      It is not wishful thinking. There is a difference between putting things in perspective and concrete policy recommendations. At country-level we give specific tax recommendations based on for example our Fair Tax Monitor reports.

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      Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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      Wishful thinking was being charitable! What justifies presenting a revenue related estimate that mainly relates to major emerging economies as if it is somehow relevant to filling a funding gap for low income countries?pic.twitter.com/0ZJYkaOgOy

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        2. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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          Promoting the idea that there are pottentially $100bns for low income countries from MNC tax dodging by putting estimates from major economies alongside pictures from Nicaragua, Malawi, South Sudan is not 'putting them in perspective' it is misleadingpic.twitter.com/31tmQM17Pz

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        3. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater Sep 19
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          These are schools in the countries where the rough estimates of international corporate tax avoidance (i.e. potential related to the underlying scale of FDI) relate. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/schools-around-the-world …pic.twitter.com/wNPDBS1O2L

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