
Taxing global rent-seeking to spur a just recovery
The world must engage with Joe Biden’s proposal for a minimum corporate-tax rate.
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José Antonio Ocampo is a professor at Columbia University, chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), a former finance minister of Colombia and executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The world must engage with Joe Biden’s proposal for a minimum corporate-tax rate.

An OECD proposal to reduce transnational tax evasion contains flaws which developing countries must challenge before it is set in stone.