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Rev. Dr. David Tracy Engages with the Question: Do You Have a Final Comment?
No full textDo you have a final comment?
Rev. Dr. David Tracy comments on the importance of asking limit questions, and how humans in general are all called to ponder questions of their traditions
Fictional form and social comment: the novels of David Lodge
No full textFictional form and social comment: the novels of David Lodg
Fictional form and social comment: the novels of David Lodge
No full textFictional form and social comment: the novels of David Lodg
Rev. Dr. David Coffey Engages With The Question: Do You Have A Final Comment?
No full textDo you have a final comment?
Rev. David Coffey discusses the importance of Christ. He states that he wants to conclude by explaining the importance of Jesus Christ himself. Rev. Coffey finds the study of Christ fascinating. He states that the personal relationship Catholics have with Christ is very important in living a life dedicated to their faith
Rev. Dr. David Coffey Engages With The Question: Would You Comment On The Ordination Of Women?
No full textWould you comment on the ordination of women?
Rev. David Coffey discusses the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. He states that this is a topic that the Vatican does not like discussed, but that he does favor the idea of open discussion on this most important issue. Coffey advises that Catholics do need to follow church teachings
Comment to CMI insight number 5: Illicit Flows and Trade Misinvoicing: Are we looking under the wrong lamppost?
No full textThis is a comment to the CMI Insight number 5, published November 2016. The Insight can be found here.
Comment by Matthew Salomon, 12 October 2016 Senior Economist, Global Financial Integrity
Broad response
Noting the increased prominence of IFFs on the development agenda in recent years and the role of trade misinvoicing in advancing general understanding of IFFs, the author (Maya Forstater) asks whether a focus on misinvoicing is not too narrow a frame for moving ahead on the IFFs agenda. She concludes that “it is not clear that the influential and widely quoted estimates of trade misinvoicing help us to understand the broader reality of illicit economies and networks in practice.” Further, the author suggests that focusing on misinvoicing is indeed looking under the wrong lamppost in the sense that it is an obstacle to progress: “continuing to allow [misinvoicing estimates] to shape understanding could impede rather than support progress in combatting corruption, organized crime, illegal exploitation of natural resources and tax evasion.”
Without question, focusing solely on misinvoicing as representative of the IFF issue is too narrow a frame—I absolutely agree with the author on this. I’d go further than the author has in this line of argument: the international community should cast as wide a net as possible in approaching a quantitative assessment of the IFFs problem. In fact, there appears to be growing international support to do this. Among a recent gathering of IFF experts at the UN there was “strong support … to keep efforts (to estimate various sources of IFFs) disaggregated and to work on improving measurement for the separate components …” {1}
IFFs are unobservable and will remain so even as the international community makes progress in its attempts to monitor those flows. Basic principles of statistical science argue for broadening the scope
The GAAR and the taxing of democracy: expert comment
No full textDavid Goldberg QC, Professor Judith Freedman, Ashley Greenbank of Macfarlanes and David Smith of International Power PLC speak about the GAAR
Letter from Fr. David O'Leary to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Fr. David O'Leary, St. John's, Tralee (County Kerry), to Hagan, enclosing money for the Pope's children's charity donated by a Swedenborgian [parishioner]. (Reverse has handwritten comment in Italian translating the facts of the donation.
Comment piece by David Tyler noting that the Bath Iron Work\u27s lease on land on
No full textComment piece by David Tyler noting that the Bath Iron Work\u27s lease on land on Portland\u27s waterfront will expire on December 21, 2001, and that the land will revert back to city if, as seems likely, BIW does not renew the lease. Tyler urges the city to draw the public into the planning process regarding the reuse of that land earlier rather than later and to avoid the snafu that surrounded the proposed sports arena, where residents were consulted only at the end of the process
Rev. Dr. David Coffey Engages With The Question: Please Comment On Your Experience As A Student Of Karl Rahner, SJ.
No full textPlease comment on your experience as a student of Karl Rahner, SJ.
Rev. David Coffey talks about his experience as a student of Karl Rahner, SJ. He suspects that classic scholastic theology has been underrated since Vatican II and that Rahner’s approach is really in the context of that tradition. Coffey says he thinks that Rahner clarified every question he explored and left many clues for other theologians to follow
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