New Media Article in L’Agefi Commodities, April 2019


How to Assess Commodity-trade Related Illicit Financial Flows? by Prof. Gilles Carbonnier and Dr. Rahul Mehrotra This article originally appeared in L’Agefi Commodities, Special Edition, April, 2019: https://stsa.swiss/news/stsa-news/commodities-2019-magazine Developing countries are expected to mobilise greater domestic resources to pay for the Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, illicit financial flows (IFFs) have become a critical … Continue reading New Media Article in L’Agefi Commodities, April 2019

Contributions of the Lao PDR Team | Curbing IFFs Research Workshop, 14-15 February 2019


Lao PDR is a resource-rich, developing country in Southeast Asia with a population of 7.2 million. Economic growth averaged more than 7% per year for most of the last decade, among the fastest in Asia. The Lao economy is heavily dependent on capital-intensive natural resource sector exports, which include hydroelectricity, mineral and agricultural commodities (copper, … Continue reading Contributions of the Lao PDR Team | Curbing IFFs Research Workshop, 14-15 February 2019