Why Justice is Unresponsive to Crime: The Case of Cocaine in Colombia

Zeinab Partow

Borradores de Economia

Number:

87

Published:

Sunday, 1 February 1998

Classification JEL:

K42, C81, H56

Keywords:

Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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