V-Norrec: We'll continue our research treaty next month. I'd rather spend this one restructuring the economy a little more carefully.
Territories- Sierra Leone (800$/turn): 4 Regulars (2 Entrenched), Battle Accountants, 1 Manual Turrets
- Guinea-Conakry (411$/turn): 1 Manual Turrets
- Liberia (222$/turn): 1 Manual Turrets, 1 Regulars
- Côte d'Ivoire (47$/turn):
- Guinea-Bissau (0$/turn):
Bonus Income (American Aid): $750
Bonus Income (Loan): $500
WealthRevenue: $2230
Savings: $40
Investment: -$2300
Construction: -$400
Remainder: $70
Investment: Plough $2000 into developing the
Financial Centre of
Sierra Leone as a hub of commerce and industry for the surrounding nations.
Plough $300 into restructuring the agricultural industry in
Guinea-Bisseau.
Construction: Construct an
Artillery Platform in Sierra Leone.
TechResearch: Temporarily on hold.
'Armies'Battle Accountants take a break for the moment.
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Regulars move from Sierra Leone - one to Cote d'Ivoire, the other to Guinea-Bisseau as a temporary measure.
Tolley's International Initiatives Affecting Financial Havens defines an 'offshore financial centre' as 'a politically correct term for what used to be called a tax haven.' Tolley qualifies this by adding that 'the use of this term makes the important point that a jurisdiction may provide specific facilities for offshore financial centres without being in any general sense a tax haven'.
Ahmed Zorome in the IMF Working Paper/07/87 deteremines that; "An OFC is a country or jurisdiction that provides financial services to nonresidents on a scale that is incommensurate with the size and the financing of its domestic economy."
However you define it, an OFC brings wealth into the country and acts as a hub for international trade and development. By restructuring our tax codes, privacy laws and providing capital for infrastructure development, we can turn Sierra Leone's not unimpressive financial sector into a powerhouse of global commerce. Multiple international banks have already expressed interest in the venture, as well as oligarchs and those citizens of wealth and power that have a vested interest in keeping their money secure in these most dangerous times.
- Dr Gayle Nambala, Director of Economic Developments