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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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Missing Dollars is No. 17 in the International Development Policy series, published in association with Brill.
“Missing Dollars” by Ghanaian filmmaker Fiifi Koomsom delves into the complex and often hidden world of illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their profound impact on developing countries.
IFFS refer to the illegal movement of money or capital from one country to another. These flows are often associated with criminal activities, tax evasion, corruption, and money laundering, posing significant challenges to economic and social development. Against this backdrop, researchers from Switzerland, Ghana and Laos engaged in a six-year project to study IFFs and consider the policy responses and innovations that could effectively curb them.
“Missing Dollars” retraces this research collaboration. Through expert interviews, real-world examples and detailed analysis, it explores how IFFs drain vital resources from developing nations, exacerbating poverty, hindering sustainable development and undermining governance and the rule of law. The video sheds light on the mechanisms through which these flows occur, including trade misinvoicing, shell companies and offshore financial centres. It also examines the global efforts to combat IFFs, highlighting the roles of international organisations, governments and civil society in creating effective policies and regulations and the importance of transparency, international cooperation and strong legal frameworks in tackling this global issue.
The project, titled “Curbing Illicit Financial Flows from Resource-Rich Developing Countries”, was funded by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (R4D.ch) and led by Gilles Carbonnier (Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Geneva Graduate Institute), Fritz Brugger (NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation, ETH Zürich), Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi (Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern), Fred Mawunyo Dzanku (Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Accra), and Sthabandith Insisienmay (Center for Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Restructuring, National Institute for Economic Research, Vientiane, Laos).
]]>Carbonnier, G., F. Brugger, E. Bürgi Bonanomi, F. M. Dzanku and S. Insisienmay (eds) (2024) 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). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.6067
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) associated with commodity trade are eroding the tax bases of resource-rich developing countries. 24 authors examine efforts and options to curb IFFs and reform taxation, key elements of the wider agenda to restore confidence in the multilateral system.
The 24 contributors are: Ama A. Ahene-Codjoe, Angela A. Alu, Latdaphone Banchongphanith, Fritz Brugger, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Fred M. Dzanku, Christian von Haldenwang, Adubea J. Hall, Sthabandith Insisienmay, Philippe Le Billon, Victor S. Mariottini de Oliveira, Rahul Mehrotra, Armando Mendoza, Lucas Millán-Narotzky, Irene Musselli, Irma Mosquera Valderrama, Ekpen J. Omonbude, Joschka J. Proksik, Agustín Redonda, Viriyasack Sisouphanthong, Latdavanh Songvilay, Abigail A. Tetteh.
The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place – International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. No 15 (Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff), 2023. Online in open access and in print.
The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures – International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. No 16 (Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff), 2023. Online in open access and in print.
The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents.
In the first volume, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying opportunities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies.
In the second one, 22 authors demonstrate the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even – and perhaps especially – in the growing support for the so-called green transition. The authors highlight the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction and the urgent need to move beyond extractive models of development towards alternative pathways that prioritise social justice and democracy, the environment, and the well-being of both humans and non-humans.
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In this video, authors Jossette Iribarne Wiff and René Leyva Flores explain their chapter “The National Health Policy for International Migrants in Chile, 2014–17” (“Política de salud de migrantes internacionales en Chile, 2014-2017”, in Spanish), written with Andrea Fernández Benítez, Marcela Pezoa González, Claudia Padilla and Macarena Chepo. Based on a review of key documents and of the literature on and deriving from the consultative processes performed in communities with high mobility and residency rates for international migrants, this chapter analyses the formulation and implementation processes of the NHPIM, as well as its short-term results, from 2014 to 2017.
This chapter is part of the 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy: “Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths”. This issue provides perspectives through case studies from the global South(s) focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels. Cite the volume: Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544, https://journals.openedition.org/pold… (paperback version: https://brill.com/view/title/63268).
]]>In this video, author Yousra Abourabi explains her chapter “Governing African Migration in Morocco: The Challenge of Positive Desecuritisation”. The chapter explores how while the European Union is trying to externalise the control of its borders to Maghreb countries, Morocco is striving to spread a positive and desecuritising discourse on migration to differentiate itself from Europe, as well as the motivations behind this and strategies towards it. It argues that Morocco’s foreign policy in Africa overall has further encouraged sub-Saharan migration, which in turn has had many positive effects.
This chapter is part of the 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy: “Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths”. This issue provides perspectives through case studies from the global South(s) focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels.
Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544, https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544 (paperback version: https://brill.com/view/title/63268).
]]>The editors, Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle, talked about the governance-migration-sustainable development nexus in the global Souths and the role of the global Souths in migration governance.
Jenny Lind Elmaco, author of one of the chapters, spoke of the case of Philipine nurses’ migration, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, linking this nexus to the topic of health.
Maria Jesus Alonso Lormand also shared with the audience her thoughts on these complex and multifaceted policy issues, speaking as Director of the Service de la Solidarité Internationale, Canton de Genève.
Finally, Vincent Chetail, director of the Global Migration Centre, also gave his important contributions to this debate.
This issue can be read in full open access at https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544 and the paperback version can be bought at https://brill.com/view/title/63268.
Cite the volume: Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544
]]>This chapter is part of the 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy: “Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths”. This issue provides perspectives through case studies from the global South(s) focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels. Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544, https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544 (paperback version: https://brill.com/view/title/63268).
]]>Read in open-access the chapter “Migration, Health and Development in India, South Asia and China: Perspectives in the COVID-19 Era” at https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4833, and the full issue, “Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths”, at https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544
Cite the volume: Dêlidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.) (2022) Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 14 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff). DOI: 10.4000/poldev.4544, https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/4544 (paperback version: https://brill.com/view/title/63268).
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