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  • Economics
  • Public Health
  • International Relations

Background:

  • Despite widespread ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many children lack access to essential environmental, economic, and social rights.
  • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim for a sustainable future by 2030, but progress is hampered by insufficient government revenue in many nations.
  • Illicit financial flows, including international tax abuse, exacerbate revenue deficits, particularly in low-income countries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the potential impact of increased government revenue, equivalent to curbing tax abuse, on child rights and SDG progress in Malawi.
  • To model the relationship between government revenue, governance, and developmental outcomes using the Government Revenue and Development Estimations model.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized recent estimates of tax abuse by multinational corporations and offshore wealth evasion.
  • Employed precise econometric modeling, specifically the Government Revenue and Development Estimations model, with panel data on government revenue per capita.
  • Modeled the impact of increased revenue on governance and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Main Results:

  • Curtailing cross-border tax abuse and evasion in Malawi could increase government revenue, leading to an annual improvement in access to basic water and sanitation for 12,000 and 20,000 people, respectively.
  • This revenue increase could also result in an additional 5,000 children attending school annually, 150 additional child survival, and 10 additional maternal survival.
  • These findings highlight the tangible benefits of addressing illicit financial flows for child rights and development.

Conclusions:

  • Enhancing children's economic and social rights requires addressing global governance gaps in taxation.
  • Establishing a global body to arbitrate and monitor international tax matters is crucial.
  • Malawi can implement domestic actions to mitigate global governance weaknesses and protect itself from illicit financial flows and tax abuse.