Archive for February 19th, 2018

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19/02/2018

‘Efficient National Tax Systems Critical for Development, and Inclusive Growth’

Human Wrongs Watch

16 February 2018 — Countries need to strengthen the effectiveness of their tax regimes to unleash much-needed domestic resources to ensure the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the promotion of inclusive economic growth, United Nations and as key international economic and financial organizations have urged.

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Source: UN in collaboration with Project Everyone

Source: UN in collaboration with Project Everyone
 At a three-day conference, from 14-16 February, held at UN Headquarters, in New York, under the theme of taxation and SDGs, the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) also urged support for developing countries to address tax transparency and base erosion and profit shifting, including on treaties.

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19/02/2018

Robots, Unemployment, and Immigrants

Human Wrongs Watch

By Roberto Savio*

19 February 2018 — Amazon has recently introduced Amazon Go, a shop where the customer enters, chooses a product from the shelves, charges the price on a magnetic card and swipes it on the way out, transferring the charge to the customer’s bank account. No queues, no cashiers, fast and easy, and the first shop in Seattle has been a roaring success. Putting products back on the shelves will soon be fully automated, with robots doing the work previously done by humans.

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TOPIO (“TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot”) is a bipedal humanoid robot designed to play table tennis against a human being. TOPIO version 3.0 at Tokyo International Robot Exhibition, Nov 2009. Photo: Humanrobo. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

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19/02/2018

Nation-Building in Syria – Or Nation-Wrecking?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jim Jatras*

Over the past few days, a controversy has been in raging over what exactly happened near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria.
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**Photo: Hasakeh: US Armored Vehicles Spreading In Direk Town 1-5-2017 | Qasioun News Agency | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

To hear the US tell it, “pro-regime” forces launched an “unprovoked attack” on a “well-established” headquarters of the “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), among whom were US personnel. (One denizen of the fever swamps assures us the attack was for the purpose of killing Americans and was approved personally by Russian President Vladimir Putin!).

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