Companies Bigger than Countries: Transparency needed for all
Transparency International (TI) recently published “Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World’s Largest Companies”, a report reviewing the transparency of 105 of the world’s largest...
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Swiss village votes to gives tax from Glencore back to poor countries
The village of Hedingen, tucked into the Swiss mountains outside of Zurich, recently took a unique opportunity to do some global good with their very own taxes. Dissatisfied with the origins of its...
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How phantom firms have robbed the DRC of billions
This map from Bloomberg shows the DRC’s natural resource wealth alongside some of its human development statistics. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the poorest countries in the world....
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Mind the gender gap: it’s shrinking
Though the world still has a ways to go before there is complete gender equality, overall global equality between men and women is shrinking, says a new report by the World Economic Forum. Of the 136...
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Christmas cheer: 4 more Swiss towns donate Glencore tax revenues back to...
Christmas market at Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Photo:http://www.flickr.com/photos/juanflauta/3089558161/ When I think of a Swiss Christmas, all sorts of iconic festive scenes come to mind: big Christmas...
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