This is a six-year interdisciplinary research project – funded through the “Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development” (r4d programme) by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – that draws on the disciplines of economics, law and political science, to analyse how commodity-trade related Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from resource-rich countries can be significantly reduced in order to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research focuses on commodity trade-related illicit financial flows (IFFs) from resource-rich developing countries, specifically related to trade mispricing and abusive transfer pricing. This project is being undertaken in collaboration with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies with project sites being Ghana, Laos and Switzerland.
Expected Duration: 3 years (September 2017 – August 2020)
Principal Investigator: Fred Dzanku