WASHINGTON, D.C.: The head of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, criticized companies dodging taxes on Thursday (Friday in Manila), calling it corrupt behavior that ultimately hurts the poor.

The World Bank president said that developing countries needed to build more equitable taxation that could bring in revenues that “could easily eclipse official development assistance” they receive.

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