Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs

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Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs
By Philip Keefer, Norman Loayza




Publisher:  World Bank Publications
Number Of Pages:  368
Publication Date:  2010-05-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0821380346
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780821380345
Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages:  350
Publication Date:  2010-05-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:  0821380362
ISBN-13 / EAN:  9780821380369


Product Description:

The drug policies of wealthy consuming countries emphasize criminalization, interdiction, and eradication. Such extreme responses to social challenges risk unintended, costly consequences. The evidence presented in this volume is that these consequences are high in the case of current drug policies, particularly for poor transit and producer countries. These costs include the deaths of thousands in the conflict between drug cartels and security forces, political instability, and the infiltration of criminal elements into governments, on the one hand; and increased narcotics use in countries that would not otherwise have been targeted by drug suppliers. Despite such costs, extreme policies could be worthwhile if their benefits were significantly higher than those of more moderate, less costly policies. The authors review the evidence on the benefits of current policies and find that they are clouded in uncertainty: eradication appears to have no permanent effect on supply; the evidence on criminalization does not exclude either the possibility that its effects on drug consumption are low, or that they are high. Uncertainty over benefits and the high costs of current policies relative to alternatives justifies greater emphasis on lower cost policies and more conscientious and better-funded efforts to assess the benefits of all policies.


INNOCENT BYSTANDERS


   Contents

   Foreword

   About the Editors and Authors

   Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Drug Prohibition and Developing Countries: Uncertain Benefits, Certain Costs

2 The Historical Foundations of the Narcotic Drug Control Regime

3 Can Production and Trafficking of Illicit Drugs Be Reduced or Only Shifted?

4 Evaluating Plan Colombia

5 Evo, Pablo, Tony, Diego, and Sonny: General Equilibrium Analysis of the Market for Illegal Drugs

6 Competitive Advantages in the Production and Trafficking of Coca-Cocaine and Opium-Heroin in Afghanistan and the Andean Countries

7 Cocaine Production and Trafficking: What Do We Know?

8 Responding to the Challenge of Afghanistan's Opium Economy: Development Lessons and Policy Implications

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