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Drugs in the Caribbean : an economic balance sheet. (Record no. 22048)

MARC details
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name GRIFFITH, Ivelaw L.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Drugs in the Caribbean : an economic balance sheet.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1995
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Discusses the costs and benefits of the drug phenomenon within the context of the region's economic circumstances. Identifies three areas of actual and potential economic benefits as : employment, income regeneration, and revenue enhancement. Negative aspects of the drug trade include its impact on certain industries, fines imposed by foreign countries, and resource utilization. Concludes that, in addition to operational countermeasures to deal with production, trafficking and other operations, and with crime, corruption and other consequences of the phenomenon, also needed are structural and functional adaptations in the economic sphere in order to remove some of the incentives for involvement in drugs.
583 ## - ACTION NOTE
Time/date of action 3/7/00
Action agent M2LMGR
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Analytic
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