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At the same time, business owners seek illicit relationships with local officials to gain protection, privileges (such as contracts), loans, a blind eye to safety standards, and regulatory exemptions – activities that generate financial risks and undermine competition by raising entry barriers for more efficient enterprises.
Illicit capital flight is draining Africa dry – costing the continent about one trillion dollars over the last 50 years, according to a high-level panel chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.
According to Global Financial Integrity, a Washington DC-based research and advocacy group, illicit capital flight from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) grew by 23% a year during the first decade of this century, reaching a total of $11 billion in 2011.
Abusive transfer pricing – in which legally related entities misprice goods or services – accounts for roughly 60% of the continent’s illicit capital flight, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
One may take issue and quibble with the numbers but there is a general consensus that illicit capital flight from Africa far exceeds aid flows and investment in volume.
Ensuring that illicit financial flows do not continue to deplete government coffers would be the perfect place to start.
But liberalization and financial stabilization have put an end to these illicit revenues.
The illicit revenues generated from market distortions and fishy subsidies to the rich are abolished with market reforms.
Chinese officials say that concern over the overexploitation and illicit export of rare earths prompted them to regulate the industry more closely.
The tobacco industry and other vested interests argue that tax increases on tobacco products fuel illicit trade.
In high-income countries, where taxes have increased tobacco prices, illicit trade is less widespread than in low-income countries with few taxes on tobacco.
Indeed, many countries – including Chile, Brazil, Hungary, Spain, and the United Kingdom – have increased tobacco taxes while curbing illicit trade.
They should also be worried about the opportunities created for money launderers, and for trade in illicit drugs.
In particular, we should push for partnerships between government and business to boost domestic resources for education, and eliminate illicit capital flows that deprive governments of the means to fund it, such as tax evasion and money laundering across national borders.
While illicit drugs are moved through all Central Asian countries, Tajikistan bears the brunt of the scourge due to its location at the northern border of Afghanistan.
The criminalization and stigmatization of women who use illicit drugs means that they are less likely than men to self-identify as needing assistance for drug dependence.
Trafficking in illicit narcotics remains illegal.
Cocaine use by high-profile entertainers, executives, models, and socialites who flaunt their illicit drug habit certainly does not help.
Most illicit coca growers are extremely poor.
Kessler added that the investigators were “truly certain” that illicit requests for a bribe had been made in exchange for changing a decision, and that Dalli’s name was used.
Netanyahu himself is a secular, cynical hedonist who faces an ongoing investigation into his alleged acceptance of lavish illicit gifts from a Hollywood mogul.
As long as the US government continues to seek illicit access to European data, instead of fully implementing its commitments, it will be difficult for the European Parliament to consent to the Umbrella Agreement.
Poachers often prove the veracity of their illicit product by showing buyers horns that have been removed from the base of the skull, an extraction method that kills the animal.
Sheila Coronel, a distinguished investigative journalist and the academic dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has found that the list of illicit rewards includes profits from extortion, property commandeered from victims, ransom for kidnapped suspects, and even commissions from funeral parlors.
These websites, which are invisible to search engines and accessible only through specialized software, are often havens for purveyors of child pornography, drugs, or other illicit products, including hacking services and malicious software.
West Africa’s Misguided War on DrugsACCRA – A recent estimate by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics that the market for illegal drugs adds £4.4 billion ($7.6 billion) annually to the country’s economy gives a sense of the astonishing scale of the illicit narcotics trade.
Recent academic studies by Sergei Guriev of Moscow's New Economic School and Guido Freibel of the University of Toulouse expose a link between strict immigration rules and illicit trafficking in human beings, confirming the need for reform.
Is the volume of illicit CFC trading so large that it is now a factor of real importance?
As with illicit drugs, it is difficult to estimate the extent of smuggling operations.
Brazil’s Economic DeliveranceWASHINGTON, DC – Ongoing corruption investigations in Brazil have exposed a tangled network of illicit relationships between private firms, government bureaucrats, and elected politicians.
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