Click here to watch the video of the event, which explored the IMF staff reports’ blind spot on private-sector assets abroad, the opportunity for multilateral cooperation, better data integration, and policy coherence.

Our panel, was moderated by Andrés Arauz (Senior Research Fellow at CEPR) and featured experts Ivana Vasić-Lalović (Senior Research Associate at CEPR), Andres Knobel (Lead Researcher at Tax Justice Network), and Getachew Teklemariam (Senior Program Officer at Coalition for Dialogue on Africa – CoDA and Secretariat of the African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows). The panel explored key questions around capital flight, who owns the assets, and the legal and institutional dimension of revisiting IMF Article VIII.2(b). 

To read more about this and related topics, please see some of our recent publications.

To view the speakers’ powerpoint presentations, please see below:

• In the Shadow of Capital Flight: Summary Statistics and Policy Implications
• Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR)
• Beneficial Ownership of Bank Accounts & Exchange of Information 

This event was co-sponsored by Tax Justice Network, Latindadd, Coalition for Dialogue on Africa, Bretton Woods Project, and MENA Fem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice. 

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