01086nam a22001337a 4500 United Nations Economic and Social Council The State of Governance in Africa The Dimension of Illicit Financial Flows as a Governance Challenge Ethiopia: United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2013. 25p. Governing illicit financial flows has become one of main challenges confronting the surge for structural transformation in Africa. Illicit financial flows (IFF) perpetuate Africa’s economic dependence on other regions and undermine the capacity of the African governments to articulate and implement a developmental state approach that prioritize capacity-expanding, transformative and distributive economic and social development policies. Illicit wealth, Infrastructure, Transparency, Corruption, Capital Flight, Couterfeiting, Drug, Trading http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/the_state_of_governance_in_africa_the_dimension_of_illicit_financial_flows_as_a_governance_challenge.pdf CF 142 142