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Latin America's Crime Tax
Summary by Project Syndicate
6 Articles
6 Articles
Latin America's Crime Tax
Even excluding lives lost, communities displaced, and families ravaged, the economic costs of organized crime in the region produce a bleak picture, shaving 0.5–2 percentage points off annual GDP growth in the most affected countries. That, too, represents a hefty human toll.
·Prague, Czechia
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Combating crime costs 78 per cent of public spending on education throughout the region, if you talk about economic costs – investment, productivity and lost growth – since “the human cost of lost lives, displaced communities and shattered families no figure could capture without trivializing.” Read more
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Mexico Evaluate Estimates Extortion Costs the Country About 2% of GDP Annually · Global Voices
·Saltillo, Mexico
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Total News Sources6
Leaning Left1Leaning Right0Center0Last UpdatedBias Distribution100% Left
Bias Distribution
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