T time
The G8 pledges to tackle the “three Ts”
A NEW seven-point strategy to end the bloodshed in Syria was the headline-grabber from the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on June 17th-18th. But the leaders of some of the world’s richest economies also made progress on the “three Ts”: trade, transparency and tax.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “T time”
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