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There is now a widespread perception that those who engage in illicit dealings have a higher probability of being caught and punished, regardless of their social status.
This often implies illicit payments to obtain contracts or licenses outside official tender processes.
Mexico, for example, has a large illicit narcotics industry that is fueled by US demand.
The group’s profits from illicit charcoal (and possibly ivory) exported from Kismayo have grown since Kenya took control.
But the most important of all financial flows are the illicit funds that pour out of so many developing countries, which the Tax Justice Network estimates to be around ten times the development aid that they receive.
Moreover, while large sums disappear through fraud, corruption, bribery, smuggling, and money laundering, the largest share of illicit financial flows is related to commercial transactions, often within multinational companies, for the purpose of tax evasion.
Moreover, China condemns “secondary sanctions” placed by the US on Chinese companies and individuals found to have illicit dealings with North Korea as assaults on its sovereignty.
Governments worldwide have frozen illicit assets stashed abroad by the regime – money that should be used to help the opposition to build a new society.
Who now decides what is legitimate and what is illicit in Islam?
Among other things, such surveys should aim to create a clear picture of adolescents’ exposure to avoidable risk factors, such as alcohol and illicit drug use, unsafe sexual behaviors, violence, obesity, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet.
In the last two years, however, the Ukrainian government has standardized energy pricing and eliminated subsidies (which had amounted to 10% of GDP and fueled illicit financial flows).
Nuclear cooperation between North Korea and Iran is no doubt assisting both countries to flaunt international norms – and now it appears that Burma has joined this axis of illicit nuclear proliferation.
Improved domestic resource mobilization and management – for example, through better tax administration, greater capacity to negotiate and manage natural-resource contracts, and stronger mechanisms for limiting capital flight and illicit financial flows – would improve the situation considerably.
The report breaks down the issue in a compelling way: by countries (producers, transit states, consumers, or all of these); by substances (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs); by links among these illicit substances; and by the consequences of consumption, production, or trade of each drug for societies, institutions, and international relations.
The energy monopoly Naftogaz, previously a cesspool of illicit transactions, has in a year managed the seemingly impossible: making Ukraine virtually independent from direct gas delivery from Russia for at least a year.
Moreover, failed states are an incubator for terrorism, trafficking of drugs and people, piracy, and other illicit activities.
For example, after China, India, and Pakistan began cracking down on illicit organ markets, many patients turned to the Philippines.
The only way to stop illicit markets is to create legal ones.
As borders become more porous to everything from illicit drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, the largest economies will have to cooperate to cope with these threats.
But the evidence against the “war on drugs” is overwhelming: prisons swelling with non-violent drug offenders, billions of dollars spent on military action to curb production while the availability of illicit drugs increases and prices drop, and increasing HIV rates throughout the former Soviet Union and parts of Asia.
The inaugural Matasa fellows also studied the political dimensions of youth employment and policy processes in Ethiopia; the social and cultural concerns underpinning employment choices across the continent; how mentorship affects entrepreneurship; and how young Africans view illicit industries, like gambling and sex work.
In the countries that currently do well on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance – Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, and others – citizens can use the law to protect themselves and their property from illicit encroachment, and to resolve their disputes in an impartial setting.
An initiative of African finance ministers, chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki, is investigating the issue on the continent, where up to $1.4 trillion was lost to illicit outflows over the last three decades.
Though weak national institutions and limited law-enforcement capacity may make it easier to initiate illicit financial transfers, we need to acknowledge that dirty money often ends up in financial centers, which have become quasi-enablers.
Second, regulations that identify the true owners of illicit funds need to be enforced.
Our work will benefit enormously from the current push for more international cooperation in curbing illicit financial flows.
Their illicit enrichment is reflected in a recent statement by the White House that they consider Putin “corrupt.”
Just as killing continues to be celebrated in ritualized form in Spanish bull rings, illicit tribal feelings are given full vent in the soccer arenas.
The other top-ten ideas from our researchers are: expanding the potential for irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa; developing a marketable “polypill” for hypertension and cardiovascular disease; researching ways to introduce successful tobacco taxes in developing countries; conducting action research – a particular approach and type of research that involves a high level of engagement between researchers and practitioners; and improving the ability of customs offices to identify illicit transactions.
A large number of government officials, including members of President Hamid Karzai’s own family, are alleged to be involved in trafficking narcotics, timber, gems, and other illicit goods.
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