[Wikimedia-l] Global Economic Map

[Alex Peek]

There's a signature list for wikipedians to show support in the project:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map


On 9 April 2013 12:35, Alex Peek <alexpeek1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i have also posted my vision on talk page for 'economy of the united
> states, japan, china, germany, united kingdom' articles on Wikipedia. I
> also posted on the Project - Econ talk page
>
>
> On 9 April 2013 12:21, Alex Peek <alexpeek1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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