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Organized crime, corruption and the challenges of economic growth in the economic community of West African states

Journal of Financial Crime, 2021
Purpose This study aims to examine organized crime, corruption and their challenges to the economic growth of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Organized crime and corruption can have a grossly negative impact on the economic growth process of every system, but the extent of damage they have needs to be measured to determine the ...
Mohammed Mallam, Hossein Abbasinejad, Chukwudi Nwokolo   +2 more
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Organized and Economic Crime: A Common Problem

2012
This chapter deals with the phenomenon of organized crime that has emerged as an urgent and serious problem in all transition countries. The authors analyze the influence of the profound political and economic changes that formed the basis of the shift from a totalitarian regime into a democratic, market-oriented society.
Martin Cejp, Miroslav Scheinost
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Organized economic crime and corruption in Urkraine: The problem of countermeasures

Trends in Organized Crime, 2001
The collapse of communism in Ukraine created opportunities for organized criminal groups to expand their economic criminal activities in the “shadow economy” by penetrating all levels of public and economic administration. Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are poorly equipped to handle this increase in criminal activity, especially with respect to ...
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Economic organized crime networks in emerging democracies

International Journal of Social Economics, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight both the ways in which transnational organized crime has developed and will develop, and also some problems in relation to financing economic organized crime networks. These are related to the problem of state capture problem in emerging democracies.Design/methodology/approachThe literature and other ...
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The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime. By Tim Hall

Economic Geography, 2019
The Economic Geographies of Organized Crime by Tim Hall is a magisterial, well-structured, extended review of and meditation on the literature on organized crime, and its relation to economic geogr...
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The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to maa activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other regions less aected by maa activity that mimics the ...
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Economic Conditions, Neighborhood Organization, and Urban Crime

Crime and Justice, 1986
Analyses of neighborhoods and their role in urban decline and revival, and mainstream sociological theories of crime, have focused attention on neighborhood crime and crime control patterns. Although much has been learned from such work, the effects of economic change on neighborhood social organization have not been taken into account.
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Concept of Organized Economic Crime

Herald of Omsk University. Series Law, 2021
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The Challenge of Organized Crime in the Balkans and the Political and Economic Implications

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 2007
Organized crime in the Balkans has become ingrained, and this is now seriously undermining to varying degrees the normal functioning of the states in the region. Geopolitical and domestic conditions provided criminal groups an increasing range of favourable circumstances. In a region where the rule of law and good governance are scarce, the combination
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THE ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK OF ORGANIZED CRIME

Форум молодых ученых, 2021
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