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The challenges associated with the prevention of smuggling and counterfeiting health goods in Iran
BMC Public HealthBackground Smuggling health goods given the importance and critical nature of health services should be undeniably addressed and controlled by all countries. This issue is especially more widespread in developing countries with more damaging consequences.
Farzaneh Mahmoudi Meymand +2 more
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Estimating Price Elasticities When there is Smuggling: The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada [PDF]
A central parameter for evaluating tax policies is the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes. But in many countries this parameter is difficult to estimate reliably due to widespread smuggling, which significantly biases estimates using legal sales ...
Anindya Sen +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The Economics of Agricultural and Wildlife Smuggling [PDF]
The United States bans imports of certain agricultural and wildlife goods that can carry pathogens or diseases or whose harvest can threaten wildlife stocks or endanger species.
Ferrier, Peyton Michael
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Smuggling in international law [PDF]
, 2023 International law has engaged with smuggling since at least the end of the nineteenth century, with treaties attempting to address the clandestine movement of goods and of people across international borders. These have included, amongst others, treaties
Oldfield, J.
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LEGAL CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL CONVERSION IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2020 This article discusses the legal certainty of legal smuggling in interfaith marriages in Indonesia. Not a few who carry out interfaith marriages in Indonesia go abroad, even though this can be categorized as a form of legal smuggling due to avoiding the ...
Romli M. +3 more
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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Nowe wyzwania w zakresie zwalczania przemytu migrantów w Unii Europejskiej
PolitejaNEW CHALLENGES IN COMBATING MIGRANT SMUGGLING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Migrant smuggling is an international crime that threatens people’s lives, violates fundamental rights and disrupts the proper management of migration flows.
Anastazja Gajda
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Trafficking and Syrian Refugee Smuggling: Evidence from the Balkan Route
, 2017 As of March 2016, 4.8 million Syrian refugees were scattered in two dozen countries by the civil war. Refugee smuggling has been a major catalyst of human trafficking in the Middle East and Europe migrant crises.
D. Mandić
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