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Accountability Deficit? Assessing the effectiveness of private finance blending in ensuring that small-scale farmers are not left behind

30/04/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

To boost agricultural development in developing countries, donors are increasingly resorting to blended finance: the practice of combining public development funds with private resources. Blended finance may open opportunities to inject more resources into the food and agriculture sector, but the assumptions that blended finance is inherently beneficial for agricultural development and that it is […]

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Briefing note

Stopping the Scandals: Five ways governments can end tax avoidance

08/11/2017

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

When global corporations and the super-rich use tax havens to avoid paying their fair share, it is the poorest countries and people who lose most. The Paradise Papers show that tax havens continue to do a roaring trade, despite government promises to clamp down on tax dodging. This briefing lists five actions governments can take […]

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Media briefing

Money Talks: Africa at the G7

02/06/2015

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

In 2010 alone, G7-based companies cheated Africa out of an estimated $US6bn through just one form of tax dodging – trade mispricing. Africa is growing economically, but billions of dollars a year are flowing out of the continent. This deprives governments of vital potential investments in healthcare and education for all, and sustainable agriculture. If […]

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Media briefing

Africa: Rising for the few

02/06/2015

2 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Multinational companies cheated Africa out of US$11bn through just one of their tax dodging tricks – trade mispricing – in 2010. Africa is growing economically, but billions of dollars a year are flowing out of the continent. This deprives governments of vital potential investments in healthcare and education for all, and sustainable agriculture. Securing Africa’s […]

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Briefing paper

Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

02/05/2014

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Fair tax regimes are vital to finance well-functioning states and to enable governments to uphold citizens’ rights to basic services, such as healthcare and education. Tax dodging by big corporations deprives governments of billions of dollars and drives rapidly increasing inequality. Recent G20 and OECD moves to clamp down on corporate tax dodging are a […]

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Issue briefing

Gender and the Green Climate Fund

18/07/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Women are on the front line of coping with, and adapting to, the effects of climate change. Both climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses affect women and men differently. Yet current climate finance institutions almost entirely ignore gender issues. The Green Climate Fund cannot afford to make the same mistake. Many agree the […]

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Briefing note

Unequal Partners: How EUACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) could harm the development prospects of many of the world’s poorest countries

27/09/2006

6 documents

17 pages long

Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

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Trade policy

Overview

The Doha ‘Development’ Round of trade talks has stalled, but the world’s poorest countries remain under pressure to open up their markets with potentially disastrous consequences. These negotiations were meant to ‘make trade fair’, but they were blocked by the USA and EU, unwilling to address the rigged rules and double standards from which they […]

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Briefing paper

Stop the Dumping! How EU agricultural subsidies are damaging livelihoods in the developing world

01/10/2002

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

European Union agricultural subsidies are destroying livelihoods in developing countries. By encouraging over-production and export dumping, these subsidies are driving down world prices of key commodities, such as sugar, dairy, and cereals. Reforming a system in which Europe’s large landowners and agribusinesses get rich on subsidies, while smallholder farmers in developing countries suffer the consequences, […]

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