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Destination Havana: Getting Investment Flowing Might Be Tougher Than You Think

March 15, 2016
Lifting the trade and investment embargo on Cuba is a laudable policy objective that would allow Cubans better access to American goods and services. It might also give American businesses a boost, including from places that could do with one, like rural Louisiana. Changing the law&nb...
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Malawi Can’t Afford Evidence-Free Tax Campaigns

Maya Forstater
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February 12, 2016
Over the past couple of weeks Malawi has become the latest poster child for UK campaigns arguing that changes to the international tax system can deliver outsize returns for development. Specifically, Action Aid is calling on the UK government to renegotiate a 60-year-old tax treaty. Questions were ...
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Percentage of Remittance Companies Reporting At Least One Bank Account Closure

December 02, 2015
Percentage of remittance companies reporting at least one bank account closure
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Two World Bank Surveys Provide (Imperfect) Evidence that De-risking Might Be Hurting Developing Countries

December 02, 2015
The World Bank recently released the results of two separate surveys aimed at gauging the extent to which de-risking is a problem. The headline result is that banks around the world are closing accounts of money transfer organizations (MTOs) and are severing links with banks in other count...