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Tax Havens Modernise African Financial Sector?

An emerging trend towards establishing offshore tax havens is that it would modernise the continents financial sector, but it would also exacerbate the "resource curse", experts say.
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  • Africa:   Emerging Trend Towards Establishing Offshore Tax Havens

    IPS, 17 August 2011

    As several African governments examine the possibility of setting up their own "offshore" financial centres, the trade name for tax havens, campaigners are calling for transparency… Read more »

  • Ghana:   Tax Havens in Africa

    Fahamu, 12 August 2010

    At one point during our conversation, the phone goes dead. Much later, Rudolf Elmer, one of the world's most infamous whistleblowers and the former chief executive officer of… Read more »

  • Africa:   Financing Global Health

    AfricaFocus, 28 September 2009

    The G20 Summit meeting in Pittsburgh last week marked a significant expansion of international fora on global problems, with the official announcement that it was replacing the… Read more »

  • Africa:   Propping Up Africa's Dictators

    Fahamu, 3 July 2009

    Lone-ranger' dictators Bongo (Gabon), Nguesso (Congo) and Obiang (Equatorial Guinea) have in fact been sustained by neocolonial relationships set up by France and the international… Read more »

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