United Nations Economic and Social Council creator text Ethiopia United Nations Economic and Social Council 2013 monographic 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. Corruption Tax Evasion Asset Stripping Drug http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/third_meeting_of_the_committee_on_governance_and_popular_participation.pdf http://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/third_meeting_of_the_committee_on_governance_and_popular_participation.pdf