in which @jasonhickel suggests ending $1.25 poverty not enough but also aiming for rapid growth in LDCs is wrong http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2015/09/23/five-reasons-to-think-twice-about-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals/ …
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Replying to @CarterPaddy
@CarterPaddy@jasonhickel - and wins the prize for the ever biggest wish-timate for international tax avoidance and evasion1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MForstater
@MForstater@CarterPaddy $990bn in illicit flows, and then approx $700bn in transfer mispricing (Baker's estimate).1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jasonhickel
@jasonhickel@CarterPaddy <sigh>1) Baker has do research on transfer mispricing (between affiliate companies) he made a guess1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MForstater
@jasonhickel@CarterPaddy 2) his guess is not a measure of tax avoidance or evasion, but of overall mispricing1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MForstater
@jasonhickel@CarterPaddy 3) there have been a bunch of studies since then which do look at transfer pricing and base erosion1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MForstater
@jasonhickel@CarterPaddy 4) the illicit flows numbers from GFI (i.e. Baker) are mainly based on trade data (i.e the same as the other 700)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MForstater
@jasonhickel@CarterPaddy .... i.e. you can't add them together.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@jasonhickel @CarterPaddy -5) saying that 'tax avoidance & evasion is draining X from a country' suggests X is a measure of tax loss
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