[Wikimedia-l] Global Economic Map

[Alex Peek]

I'm in the marketing stage of the project and looking for editors for this
project. I have posted the project proposal to Krugman's blog and a few
separate blogs on the Economist.

Any advice on what I should next do to get the word out?


On 8 April 2013 14:57, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave at culture-libre.org> wrote:

> Le lundi 08 avril 2013 à 23:09 +0200, Jane Darnell a écrit :
> > 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
>
> What I understood from the France Culture radio emission was even worst,
> because it said it was not "exception of the system" but the "core of
> the modern financial system". It said that the tax haven countries can
> be tax havens only because they passed an agreement with other
> countries. In other word, the "political will" is to maintain this
> system.
>
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