Governments across the world are cracking down on tax havens, but some of those very same governments are equally touting their countries as offshore financial centres. Annette Young talks to John Christensen, director of the Tax Justice Network, about how these nations, such as Britain, are suffering from what he calls the "financial curse", where their oversized financial sectors ironically hinder economic growth.

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