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1 results foundAuthor: Navarro, Ignacio A. Title: Cocaine Cities Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America Summary: The relationship between the cocaine trade and urban land markets in South America has been overlooked by the mainstream economics and urban studies literature. This paper examines two avenues through which the cocaine trade can have a large impact on urban development in producer countries: (i) through an employment multiplier effect similar to that of other legal exports, and (ii) through money laundering using urban real estate. We test our hypotheses using the Bolivian case and find that urban growth patterns are closely related to fluctuations in cocaine production. Further, even though our estimates suggest that the cocaine trade affects urban growth through the two avenues presented in the paper, we find that formal urban employment generated by the cocaine trade has a modest effect on urban growth and most of the effect seems to be explained by money laundering using real estate and other paths. Details: Helsinki: United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2011. 15p. Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper No. 2011/09: Accessed September 21, 2011 at: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2011/en_GB/wider-working-papers-2011/ Year: 2011 Country: Bolivia URL: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2011/en_GB/wider-working-papers-2011/ Shelf Number: 122802 Keywords: Cocaine (Bolivia)Drug TraffickingDrugsMoney LaunderingUrban Areas |