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Illicit economies and the Spaces of Circulation highlighting the informal or unregulated economic flows underpinning globalisation

Katılım Haziran 2013
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Global Initiative@GI_TOC·
⛏️Did you know artisanal gold mining is both a lifeline & a battleground? In #BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫, JNIM taxes miners in exchange for security, gaining legitimacy while funding operations. Learn why cracking down isn’t a simple fix. 🧵 1/3
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Assaf@_assaf_ps·
52 violations in 24 hours… Anyone surprised?
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Max Gallien
Max Gallien@MaxGallien·
📰NEW PAPER One common misconceptions about informal economies is that they do not pay taxes. In our new @WorldDevJournal article we use a survey of 2500 informal workers in Accra to show that tax burdens can be very real, highly regressive, and skewed: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kC54,6yxDST…
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Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne@OborneTweets·
Hugely important and thorough Financial Times investigation into state-backed settler terrorism on the West Bank. Case for sanctions on Ben Gvir, Smotrich and others overwhelming: ig.ft.com/west-bank via @ft
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janna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
janna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸@janna_e_haider·
Gonna start referring to every UC campus as “DoD-funded” and “Raytheon-supported”
Assal Rad@AssalRad

Israel is trying to completely breakdown the barrier between civilian and combatant—by using language like “Hamas-run” or “Hezbollah-linked”—to justify targeting hospitals, civil service offices, banks, aid agencies and journalists. And Western media just mindlessly repeats it.

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David__Osland
David__Osland@David__Osland·
Two-year prison sentences for throwing condensed soup at a plate of glass. No punishment whatsoever for dodging a £3.7m tax bill, selling dud PPE to the NHS, dumping billions of litres of sewage in rivers or knowingly fitting flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower.
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