From financial secrecy to African Child Mortality

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 A joint post by Alex Cobham, Bernadette O’Hare (St Andrews University and University of Malawi) and Innocent Makuta (University of Malawi) on the Centre for Global Development Website

A blog about our research on the stark scale of unnecessary child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa linked to illicit financial flows, the OECD has today launched a damning report on the financial secrecy and related failings of its own member states. Global policy commitments are required to turn the rhetoric against illicit financial flows and tax abuse into reality.