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July 2025

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From economy of occupation to economy of genocide

by Daniela Tafani

A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 The role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of the present investigative report, which is focused on how corporate interests underpin the Israeli settler-colonial twofold logic of displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing Palestinians from their lands. The Special Rapporteur discusses corporate entities in various sectors: arms manufacturers, tech firms, building and construction companies, extractive and service industries, banks, pension funds, insurers, universities and charities. These entities enable the denial of self-determination and other structural violations in the occupied Palestinian territory, including occupation, annexation and crimes of apartheid and genocide, as well as a long list of ancillary crimes and human rights violations, from discrimination, wanton destruction, forced displacement and pillage to extrajudicial killing and starvation. <https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupat…>

July 1, 2025

Estimating digital product trade through corporate revenue data | Nature Communications

by Antonio Vetro'

Segnalo articolo apparso su Nature Communications nel 2024 e che si interseca con il tema delle tassazioni dei servizi digitali, di grande attualità in questi giorni. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49141-z Despite global efforts to harmonize international trade statistics, our understanding of digital trade and its implications remains limited. Here, we introduce a method to estimate bilateral exports and imports for dozens of sectors starting from the corporate revenue data of large digital firms. This method allows us to provide estimates for digitally ordered and delivered trade involving digital goods (e.g. video games), productized services (e.g. digital advertising), and digital intermediation fees (e.g. hotel rental), which together we call digital products. We use these estimates to study five key aspects of digital trade. We find that, compared to trade in physical goods, digital product exports are more spatially concentrated, have been growing faster, and can offset trade balance estimates, like the United States trade deficit on physical goods. We also find that countries that have decoupled economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions tend to have larger digital exports and that digital exports contribute positively to the complexity of economies. This method, dataset, and findings provide a new lens to understand the impact of international trade in digital products. Un saluto antonio -- Antonio Vetrò, Associate Professor Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino Nexa Center for Internet & Society<https://nexa.polito.it/> https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=antonio.vetro

July 1, 2025