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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"illicit trade"”.
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Smoking cessation in South Africa: cigarette prices, plain packaging, and illicit trade
… The design of the experiment accounted for illicit cigarettes so as to reflect current market conditions closely. The willingness to pay for cigarette packs with different attributes was also estimated using a Becker–DeGroot– Marschak auction. Since increasing excise taxes increases the …
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The Illicit Trade in Cultural Property Online: A Critical Analysis of Legal Frameworks, Gaps and Opportunities
The illicit trade in cultural property has inevitably adapted to technological developments. While traditionally the illicit trade took place on-the-ground, the emergence of social media and e-commerce has necessarily created new and largely unregulated environment for the circulation of illicit …
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Illicit trade and cultural heritage in South Africa: investigating the policy environment and opportunities for digitisation
… at understanding and addressing the issue of illicit trafficking in cultural heritage assets in South Africa. The specific research questions guiding this study are as follows: ● What is the state of illicit trafficking in cultural heritage assets in South Africa? ● To what extent does the …
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A South African perspective: Do excise duties imposed on tobacco products drive the illicit trade in tobacco products?
… that it would result in an increase in the illicit trade in tobacco products. The illicit trade in tobacco products is on the rise and the tobacco industry has attributed this increase to the continual increase of excise duties on tobacco products. In this regard, the tobacco industry made a …
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What Role do Economic Interests Play in Improving Bilateral Relations Between Algeria and Morocco?
… that economic interests, especially those in illicit trade, are impactful factors that have negatively affected the bilateral cooperation between Algeria and Morocco. To explain the factors facilitating bilateral relations, this project explores four variables: mediation attempts, regional …
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… Tyng actively promoted and was engaged in the illicit trade of African captives. A Boston Brahmin, Tyng applied the lessons of his time at sea with Perkins & Company, the opium trading firm, to his occupation as an agent of notorious slave trading firms in Havana. This paper uses as evidence …
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Effect of increased reliance on specific excise on the consumption of cigarettes
… strategies of tobacco control such as combating illicit trade.
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The effect of proximity to the northern borders on smoking prevalence among Namibian men
… of tobacco products, without encouraging illicit trade, cross border purchases, or compromising its public health agenda.
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were distinct from national allegiances. Although the Confederate government …
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Not yet Soko Huru : the local appropriation of 'free market' discourse in the coffee industry of rural Kenya, Meru District (1998)
… discourse (Soko Huru ) as an alibi for the illicit trade of surplus coffee that feeds into Kenya's second economy. The thesis questions whether economic liberalization and structural adjustment programmes are transforming rural social relations in Meru District. Discussions on the relevancy …
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Border Control Paradox: The Political Economy of Smuggling Between Colombia and Venezuela
… and relational infrastructures that sustain the illicit trade of gasoline, food, and migrants. Rather than treating smuggling as a residual or deviant economy, the study situates it within a broader political economy of crisis, survival, and informal rule. The findings contribute to debates on …
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Development of Bioinformatic Tools and Procedures to Computationally Support DNA Barcoding
… analysis, food identification, monitoring illicit trade in plants and animals and numerous metabarcoding projects.<br/><br/>From the development of the improved alignment pipeline, users will be able to align the rbcL and matK barcode regions with confidence, with only a minimal amount of …
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An Investigation into the Domestic and International of Wildlife for Meat and Medicine in Southeast Asia
… and animals. In recent years this commercial trade has dramatically escalated. Once a species is targeted, trade-driven demands can rapidly diminish wild populations. In Southeast Asia, the potent combination of rising population, disposable wealth, popular demand and easy access to natural …
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The need for harmonisation of wildlife crime laws in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) A case study of the illicit abalone trade
The illicit wildlife trade (IWT) is the fourth most lucrative form of organised crime globally (Donnenfeld & Aucoin, 2017:1). The Global Financial Integrity (GFI) reports that IWT is one of the most profitable and illicit economies with a profit margin of US$ 23 billion annually (May, 2017:np). It …
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Characterising pangolin trade in China from a social science perspective
… according to various researches. As a result, trade in, and consumption of, wildlife products has become a major threat to global biodiversity. Pangolins are currently recognised as one of the most trafficked mammalian taxa globally, due to the high international and local demand for their …