Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek … to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume … by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description …

, extortion and evasion / Jean Hindriks, Michael Keen, and Abhinay Muthoo -- pt. 4. Corruption, income distribution, and poverty … and poverty? / Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid R. Davoodi, and Rosa Alonso-Terme -- pt. 5. Corruption and transition economies …

The financial crisis has opened up a global debate on the taxation of the financial sector. A number of international … financial crisis and whether taxation can play a role in the reform efforts under way to establish a sounder and safer financial …