19-04-15 1:56 pm – Source: Reuters
Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Development and Foreign Trade) in Washington. © getty
Netherlands carries 5 million to an investment fund that the economic recovery in the by Ebola affected countries should promote. That made minister Lilianne Ploumen (Development and Foreign Trade) announced yesterday in Washington.
Netherlands after Russia, Japan, Norway and Denmark the fifth country participating in the Fund of the World Bank. The funds from the so-called Ebola Recovery and Reconstruction Trust Fund are used for the recovery of the economy in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the countries that have been hit hard in recent months by the Ebola epidemic.
money is separate from the $ 650 million in additional loans and grants that the World Bank announced earlier this week. Ploumen further indicated that the Netherlands in July is organizing a trade mission to the affected countries and that an international donor conference follows in the Netherlands in the fall.
Ploumen made the commitment at the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the World Bank meetings that were mainly devoted to financing the fight against poverty.
Transparent taxation
It aims to developing countries to have more responsibility contribute to fund their development. So they could make an important contribution to the goal of the World Bank to help extreme poverty by 2030 from the world.
The Netherlands in this area focuses on the strengthening of tax administrations in developing countries. Before that are used include experts from the Dutch tax authorities. “We should countries allow themselves to tax and that resources in a transparent way to deploy services. A dollar invested yields often end up tenfold on it, ‘says Ploumen.
The Netherlands is also committed to a fairer tax system in an international context, explained the minister. The coming months are therefore more than twenty tax treaty concluded with other countries examined.
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