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Tax havens are fuelling autocracy
Oped, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub, Published on 23/02/2023
» People have been trying to dodge paying taxes since time immemorial, but globalisation has turned tax avoidance and evasion, as well as money laundering, into a lucrative business model. Over the past few decades, offshore tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Cyprus, and Ireland have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to conceal profits and private wealth on an unprecedented scale.
Closing tax havens will test West's resolve
Oped, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 11/03/2022
» Russia's war in Ukraine may not be going as it had planned, but the worst is still to come. And while Western financial sanctions against Russian institutions and oligarchs have exceeded what some were expecting, they have not targeted the Western-based roots of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime.
The G20 and the means to climate safety
Oped, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 29/10/2021
» Philosopher Immanuel Kant famously said: "Whoever wills the end also wills… the indispensably necessary means to it that is in his control." Put simply, when we set a goal, we ought to take the actions needed to achieve it. This is an essential maxim for our governments, and it should guide G20 leaders when they meet in Rome tomorrow to confront the climate crisis.