Finance

The long-anticipated rebasing of Nigeria’s GDP series was finally made public on Sunday April 6, and the general media reaction has been cautiously celebratory. But the reaction has largely missed one big point: the rebasing establishes that the biggest economy in Africa has the lowest tax rev...

Yesterday in a blog about the World Bank and open contracting, I mentioned the bank had put out  more data on contracts that it finances.  The covered contracts are those that were large enough for World Bank procurement procedures to mandate “prior review” by ba...

What do Argentina, India, and South Africa have in common with Jersey, Cayman and the Turks and Caicos? They’ve just agreed to share financial information with each other, for tax purposes. 

A $1 trillion financing partnership to support ending extreme poverty, stopping avoidable child deaths, and meeting other widely supported post-2015 development goals sounds far-fetched.  But improbable action is what will be needed if we’re going to come close to making such historically...