Abetting Poverty, Drugs, and Terrorism: Illicit Financial Flows / Center for Strategic and International Studies, 9 July 2007
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Gerald Hyman
"Most of the discussion on development, especially for Africa, assumes that there are rich countries and poor countries and that development requires that the rich countries provide more funding and assistance to the poor ones. That may be so. Less understood by far, however, is the amount of money conveyed annually from the poor countries to the rich ones through illicit financial transactions: funds that are illegally generated, transferred, or used."