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MACMILLAN Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs

Name: Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs
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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 "Innocent Bystanders" 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.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0821380362
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Economics > Economic Policy & Development
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 April 2010
Listed Since: 02 November 2009

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