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English Pages 400 Year 1990
Table of contents :
Preface
1 The World of Secret Money
2 What is Secret Money?
3 Demand for Secret Money: Capital Flight, Bribery and Corruption
4 Demand for Secret Money: Tax Evasion, Smuggling and Insider Trading
5 Demand for Secret Money: Fraud
6 Demand for Secret Money: Money Laundering and Undercover Activities
7 Supply of Secret Money
8 Global Secrecy Havens
9 Combating International Financial Secrecy: Unilateral Initiatives
10 Combating International Financial Secrecy: Patterns of Cooperation and External Pressure
11 Consequences
12 The Outlook
Annex 1 Theory of International Financial Secrecy
Annex 2 Catalog of US Cases Involving Bank or Commercial Secrecy
References
About the Author
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