And for non Norwegians: "Illicit financial flows result in developing and emerging economies losing large amounts of tax revenues and investment capital. But how much? $1 trillion annually, and for Africa at the least 50 billion? Or are these the numbers conjured from thin air?"https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/993838723665100800 …
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"When I worked at the Norwegian embassy in Zambia from 2011 to 2016, my experience was that such numbers can confuse & undermine trust in serious attempts to limit such capital flight"
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"These numbers have been shown to be totally misleading. Sadly they helped to make the effort to reform the tax system and streamline tax collection more difficult, and undermined efforts to create a mutual understanding and informed debate on challenges in the mining sector"
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