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Stemming "commercial" illicit financial flows & developing country innovations in the global tax reform agenda

Montes, Manuel F.; Uribe, Daniel - 2018

Illicit Financial Flows generated due to the commercial activities of multinational enterprises are quantitatively the most important challenge faced by developing countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Current efforts for stemming these illicit flows and reforming the...

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Assessment of South-South cooperation and the global narrative on the eve of BAPA+40

Li, Yuefen - 2018

This research paper gives a brief account of the fast expansion of South-South cooperation (SSC) in volume, modalities and participating countries and institutions. Though SSC is a de facto development compact, there is a tendency to overstate the total concessional financial element of SSC...

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Key issues for BAPA+40: South-South cooperation and the BAPA+40 subthemes

Yu, Vicente Paolo B. - 2019

Developing countries today face multiple interlinked macroeconomic, financial, climate, and development challenges. South-South cooperation is an important element for developing countries to meet these challenges individually and collectively, and in multilateral North-South dialogue and global...

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Regulating the digital economy: Dilemmas, trade offs and potential options

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - 2019

The digital economy has been growing exponentially in recent years thanks to new technologies that are promoting a global transformation. Key technologies responsible for this transformation have become the subject of intense discussions under the umbrella term 'fourth industrial revolution'....

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Tax haven listing in multiple hues: Blind, winking or conniving?

Akhtar, Jahanzeb; Grondona, Verónica - 2019

Tax havens are among the biggest challenges faced by developing countries in achieving their national development goals. States, international organisations, multilateral agencies and non-governmental organisations have all made several efforts at compiling ‘lists’ of tax havens at the...

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Mainstreaming or dilution? Intellectual property and development in WIPO

Syam, Nirmalya - 2019

In 2007 Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) unanimously adopted a set of 45 …

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Intellectual property under the scrutiny of investor-state tribunals: Legitimacy and new challenges

Ducimetière, Clara - 2019

In 2009, C.S. Gibson was suggesting that: "With this early coverage of intellectual property in BITs, it is perhaps surprising that there has yet to be a publicly reported decision concerning an IPR-centered investment dispute. Given the trajectory of the modern economy, however, in which...

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Developing country coalitions in multilateral negotiations: Addressing key issues and priorities of the Global South agenda

Timossi, Adriano José - 2019

deterioration grow even larger. The instabilities of the contemporary world pose serious risks to the achievement of the … emerging challenges such as climate change, and to overall global stability, a pattern not seen since the Second World War. In …

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Ensuring an operational equity-based global stocktake under the Paris Agreement

Al-Zahrani, Hesham; Chai, Qimin; Fu, Sha; Osafo, Yaw; … - 2019

One of the key provisions of the Paris Agreement that was adopted in December 2015 at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is Article 14 on the global stocktake (GST). The GST is intended to be the mechanism by which the...

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Medicines and intellectual property: 10 years of the WHO global strategy

Velásquez, Germán - 2019

) (2006-2008), undertaken by the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), were the result of a deadlock in the … 2006 World Health Assembly where the Member States were unable to reach an agreement on what to do with the 60 … Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (GSPOA) that was approved by the World Health …

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