Trafficking and Fragility in West Africa
Trafficking is an emerging concern in West Africa that is gaining increasing attention from the international community. This paper examines the relationship between trafficking and fragility in the region through a meta-analysis of existing knowle...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24919386/trafficking-fragility-west-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22475 |
| Summary: | Trafficking is an emerging concern in
West Africa that is gaining increasing attention from the
international community. This paper examines the
relationship between trafficking and fragility in the region
through a meta-analysis of existing knowledge and data on
the subject. Given the scope of this paper, we will not
attempt to provide any primary empirical or qualitative
analysis, but instead focus on offering a comprehensive,
unbiased overview of the recent policy and academic
literature on the subject, which we hope will assist
development practitioners working in the region and help the
World Bank identify possible programmatic responses. The
authors start this paper by defining trafficking to frame
our analysis, and then provide an overview of the
trafficking economy across the region. Next, authors outline
the potential channels between trafficking and fragility,
discussing the actors involved (organized criminal groups,
rebels, local or national level politicians, the military,
and civilians) and their relevance to specific countries.
Finally, the authors present our suggestions on possible
policy and programmatic responses, based on identifying both
regional and external dimensions to the problems. |
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