A NEW estimate of the size of shadow economies around the world sheds light on a worrying trend.

全球影子经济规模的最新预测凸显了令人不安的趋势。

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NEW estimate of the size of shadow economies around the world sheds light on a worrying trend.

对全球地下经济规模的最新预测显示出了令人担忧的增长趋势。

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The shadow economies of Spain, Portugal and Italy were all around a fifth of GDP.

WSJ: Greece Grapples With Tax Evasion

It is no coincidence that those countries have the smallest shadow economies.

ECONOMIST: Light on the shadows

In emerging economies, the shadow economy is driven not so much by the incentive to evade taxes, which tend to be lower than in rich economies, as by a desire to evade the law.

ECONOMIST: The shadow economy