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Public finance

Incentives to become formal

Even if rates are kept low, more formal businesses will mean more tax revenue in Benin

Our view

What good governance depends on

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, all countries need an effective and fair tax system

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

State industrial policy should appropriately govern market processes

Protecting the oceans

A call to action

Many marine areas are at imminent risk of collapse, so experts are sounding the alarm

International initiatives

Battling tax evasion

Commodities companies should be made more transparent

Commodities

Missing billions

International oil, gas and mining corporations are cheating developing countries out of tax revenue on an enormous scale

Bad governance

Democratic procedures serve a purpose

In the USA, the Republican tax reform resembles bad governance in much poorer countries

Government campaign

The slandering of a philanthropist

The vilification of George Soros at the hands of the Hungarian government is baffling

Government revenues

Undermining statehood

How structural adjustment and double tax agreements have contributed to weakening public finances in Africa

Domestic resource mobilisation

Double standards

African countries should raise more tax revenues, but OECD governments are not really helping

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.