[Wikimedia-l] Global Economic Map

[Jane Darnell]

Mathieu,
I just watched a Dutch documentary about this same issue last week.
The main gist of the documentary is that the corporations avoid taxes
in a structured way: they go to tax havens or take advantage of
economic arrangements where the the first five years of residence are
tax free in return for starting up a business. The countries offering
the tax haven are hoping for sustainable local business, but instead,
after 5 years the premises are deserted and offered tax free to the
next corporation, so that a rotational system of multi-nationals is
devised.  The global economy has become not only a mobile one for
individuals, but also for corporations.

In order to be able to see such developments in an open "economic
map", much more underlying data needs to be plugged in to Wikipedia in
terms of articles about global industrial localities, global
industrial corporations, and then local economic industrial data. All
of these things are very badly documented when it comes to developing
countries, where much of this is happening. Today, Wikipedia is mainly
written in (and about!) Western Europe and North America.
Jane

2013/4/8, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave at culture-libre.org>:
> 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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