00987nam a22001097a 4500100001800000245004700018260003800065300000700103520061300110650006300723856009100786  aAddis Fortune  aAfrica: Rethinking Illicit Financial Flows  aAddis Abebab Addis Fortunec2014  a3p  aThe article focuses on development priorities for the next 15 years, with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expiring in 2015, areas of focus is shifting.Illicit financial flowsIllicit financial flows (IFF) would not be top priority, but they are important enough to be included in the post-2015 goals being debated by the international community.The costs of IFFs,  in 20 sub-Saharan Africa countries are estimated to have cost more than 10pc of their gross domestic products (GDP) since 1980, while Africa as a whole is still estimated to be losing 3.4pc of GDP, that is, 76 billion dollars each year.  aCAPITAL FLIGHT CAPITAL OUTFLOW ILLICIT WEALTH TRANSPARENCY  uhttp://iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/africa_rethinking_illicit_financial_flows.pdf