Cardamone, T. creator text Washington, DC Global Financial Integrity 2015 monographic 3p. Over the past year or so, Global Financial Integrity has begun to hear—in various venues and by various people—the warning to audiences that they shouldn’t “focus on the big number.” A trillion dollars is a global number, these observers say, and can’t be used to assess the impact at the country level. Or, they contend, the trillion dollars in IFFs is from a cluster of emerging market countries and therefore is skewed to make it look as though all developing countries have huge problems when really only a few do. GFI decided to go back to the data to see if the criticisms were accurate. Capital Outflow, Poverty iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/illicit_flows_in_the_poorest_of_places.pdf iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/illicit_flows_in_the_poorest_of_places.pdf