[Wikimedia-l] Global Economic Map

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-04-06 17:43, Alex Peek a écrit :
> I would love to see a Wiki project map out the global economy. In an
> organized format all local/country economic data would be collected. 
> All
> authors would be required to write articles according to a 
> standardized
> format. The model revolves around publicly released economic data: 
> GDP,
> employment, industries, corporations, fiscal policy, etc. Economists 
> and
> volunteers can help determine which economic data accounts are most
> appropriate to be required under the standardized format.


That would be indeed be very interesting. While coming back from 
Brusells yearsterday, I was listening to "France culture" which was 
talking about tax haven, as the budget minister of France was catched 
trying to practive Tax avoidance. The man which was interviewed (I think 
it was an economist) said that the avoidance was such that just last 
year missed Tax income would have been enough for the ten coming years 
of the so called austerity/rigor European Union bugdet.

It looks like the tax haven list is well known, but the whole network 
of it is a completely legal, well structured finacial opacity system. 
What the man said was realy missing, was a public map of each country 
incomes details or something like that. Note that I'm not a economist 
(and far from being competent in this field I think), and that you 
should take this report/comment with this consideration in mind. :P

Well, anyway, thank for sharing, I think that's a very important work 
you are doing.
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