Illicit Financial Flows: Issues Paper United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Illicit Wealth The present issues paper attempts to identify, examine and raise awareness about the development challenges that illicit financial flows pose to Africa’s transformation. It identifies important mechanisms, the dynamics and the main challenges to curtailing and redirecting illicit financial flows and their implications for Africa’s economic transformation as we as establish knowledge for anchoring policy change to control and curb illicit financial flows from the continent, as part of structural transformation among other interventions United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Text 12p. iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/Illicit financial flows_ENG_rev.pdf