E-CONSULTATION: Paper -- "Coming to Grips with Illicit Financial Flows in Asia-Pacific: Case Studies of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nepal (2002-2011)”

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We are pleased to invite you to an e-consultation on “Coming to Grips with Illicit Financial Flows in Asia-Pacific: Case Studies of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nepal (2002-2011)”. This is a draft paper by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) written in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Please click on this link to access the e-consultation: https://illicitfinancialflows.wordpress.com/

In particular, we invite you to provide feedback on:

- the draft paper’s definition of illicit financial flows (IFF);

- the sources of IFF in the 4 case studies (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal) and proposed solutions;

- whether there is interest in your country in: undertaking in-country consultations with the support of UNDP, UNODC and GFI to raise awareness on IFF, its drivers and possible counter-measures; conducting more thorough studies of IFF; and, organizing a high-level regional meeting on IFF (conclusions to feed into the UN’s Post-2015 agenda); and,

- possible limitations of the methodology used by GFI for estimating illicit financial flows.

All comments will be collected, integrated and then used to edit, expand and revise the draft paper before its final publication.

We thank you in advance for your valuable contributions.

Links:

E-consultation: https://illicitfinancialflows.wordpress.com/

Draft paper: “Coming to Grips with Illicit Financial Flows in Asia-Pacific: Case Studies of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nepal (2002-2011)”

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