This June 2015 report, the latest in a series by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), highlights the outsized impact that illicit financial flows have on the world's poorest economies. The study looks at illicit financial flows from some of the world’s poorest nations and compares those values to some traditional indicators of development—including GDP, total trade, foreign direct investment, public expenditures on education and health services, and total tax revenue, among others—over the period 2008–2012. 
 
Authored by GFI Junior Economist Joseph Spanjers and GFI Economics Intern Håkon Frede Foss, the report also produces several scatter plots in which illicit flows values for all developing and emerging market nations are compared to key trade indicators and various development indices, such as human development, inequality, and poverty, to determine if correlations exist between the two. 
 
For more information on the report, visit: http://www.gfintegrity.org/report/illicit-financial-flows-and-development-indices-2008-2012/

Illicit Financial Flows and Development Indices: 2008-2012 PDF

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