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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) associated with commodity trade erode the tax base of resource-rich developing countries. Missing Dollars presents key findings of a six-year interdisciplinary research partnership on curbing IFFs, involving academic institutions from both commodity-exporting and trading countries. The book contributes to evidence-based policy making for effective global tax governance reform and domestic revenue mobilisation in resource-rich developing countries.
Gilles Carbonnier, Fritz Brugger, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Fred M. Dzanku, and Sthabandith Insisienmay (eds)
Missing Dollars: Illicit Financial Flows from Commodity Trade, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 17 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff, 2024), DOI: 10.4000/11q9e
Available online in open access and in paperback.
Programme
18:30 Introduction
- Gilles Carbonnier, Geneva Graduate Institute
Setting the scene - Mobilizing domestic resources for sustainable development.
Panel 1. Focus on commodity producing countries
- Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe, University of Ghana
Potential illicit financial flow risks in Ghana’s Gold-for-Oil transaction – Major findings and policy implications. - Ekpen J. Omonbude, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)
Metals streaming and royalty Financing: A framework for assessing mining sector financial benefit–sharing implications for governments. - Humberto Campodónico, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
Tax reforms in hydrocarbons and mining. The case of Chile, Colombia and Peru.
Q&A
Panel 2. Focus on financial and trading hubs (CH) and links to producer countries and global governance
- Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, University of Berne
Key issues for Switzerland. - Fritz Brugger, ETH Zürich
The battle over policies to curb trade-related illicit financial flows.
Feedbacks and comments by 3 discussants: Thomas Lassourd, IISD, Florence Schurch, Swissnégoce, and Edward Shabani, Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, Republic of Zambia.
Q&A and general discussion
20:00 Drinks and snack
Panelists
Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe is a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Ghana (UG). She is also affiliated with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at UG, where she served as the lead researcher (Economics, Ghana) for the project 'Curbing Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Resource-rich Developing Countries'. Before her academic role, she gained consulting experience at Ernst & Young, Ghana, in their advisory service line. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include trade and fiscal policies, value chain analysis, political economy, and agribusiness development and marketing.
Fritz Brugger is co-director of the Centre for Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NADEL) at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His research focuses on the politics of development, particularly governance in the extractive sector, commodity trading, and illicit financial flows. He co-led the research project on curbing illicit financial flows from resource-rich countries and conducts field research on both industrial and small-scale mining, primarily in Africa.
Dr. iur. and Attorney at Law Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi leads the research area Sustainability Governance at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern. She lectures on Law and Sustainability at both the CDE and the University’s Law Faculty. Her research focuses on the legal principle of sustainability; policy coherence for sustainable development; sustainable trade regimes; transnational value chains, commodity trading and illicit financial flows; food sustainability and related economic policies; human rights due diligence; and sustainable finance.
Humberto Campodónico is a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos at Lima, Peru. He has been regional adviser on natural resources at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, United Nations, Santiago) and is a former president of Petroperú, the national oil company.
Gilles Carbonnier is professor of development economics at Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). His expertise includes natural resource governance and sustainable development, regerenative economy, as well as the economics of conflict and humanitarian action. He led the 6-year interdiscinplinary research project on curbing illicit financial flows.
Ekpen J. Omonbude is a senior policy adviser at the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development, leading the research pillar of the Global Mining Tax Initiative. With over two decades of experience in energy and mineral resources economics, including a decade at the Commonwealth Secretariat, he specializes in economic and policy support for mining, energy, and infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Petroleum Policy and Economics from the University of Dundee, an MBA from the University of Abertay, and a Bachelor's in Economics and Statistics from the University of Benin.
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