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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for drugs and crime (colombia)
2 results foundAuthor: Mejia, Daniel Title: The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia Summary: This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets, which allows us to account for the feedback effects between policies and market outcomes that are potentially important when evaluating large scale policy interventions such as Plan Colombia. We use available data for the war on cocaine production and trafficking as well as outcomes from the cocaine markets to calibrate the parameters of the model. Using the results from the calibration we estimate important measures of the costs, effectiveness, and efficiency of the war on drugs in Colombia. Finally we carry out simulations in order to assess the impact of increases in the U.S. budget allocated to Plan Colombia, and find that a three-fold increase in the U.S. budget allocated to the war on drugs in Colombia would decrease the amount of cocaine that successfully reaches consumer countries by about 17%. Details: Brighton, UK: Households in Conflict Network, The Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 2008. 57p. Source: HiCN Working Paper 53: Internet Resource: Accessed August 28, 2012 at http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp53.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/wp53.pdf Shelf Number: 126125 Keywords: Armed Conflict (Colombia)Cocaine (Colombia)Costs of CrimeDrug Trafficking (Colombia)Drugs and Crime (Colombia)Evaluative StudiesWar on Drugs (Colombia) |
Author: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Title: Colombia: Coca cultivation survey 2011 Summary: The Global Programme of Illicit Crops Monitoring of UNODC has been supporting the Colombian Government in the implementation and improvement of the Coca Cultivation Monitoring System since 1999. As from 2001, annual censuses have been carried out, covering the entire Colombian territory; this report expounds the results of the coca census for 2011. The methodology used by the Project is based on the interpretation of satellite images of medium resolution and field verification. This verification is used for the editing of the interpretation in the office and for the calculation of the extension of coca cultivation. For the areas without information in the images due to cloudiness or other factors, the corrections are estimated based on trend criteria. The historical series was adjusted considering that coca crops in Colombia are smaller and smaller over time; the data in 2011 and 2010 include the adjustment of small fields that give continuity to the historical series. The results of the census show that on 31 December 2011 Colombia had 64,000 hectares cultivated with coca, distributed in 23 of the 32 departments of the country. This represents a stability relation (+3%) with respect to the 62,000 hectares detected in 2010. 14 out of the 23 departments affected show a tendency to reduction; however, the increase in 4 departments compensate for that trend. Details: Vienna: UNODC, 2012. 114p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 28, 2012 at http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Colombia/Colombia_Coca_cultivation_survey_2011.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Colombia/Colombia_Coca_cultivation_survey_2011.pdf Shelf Number: 126161 Keywords: Coca Eradication (Colombia)Cocaine (Colombia)Drug Control Policy (Colombia)Drugs and Crime (Colombia) |