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Africa > Gambia, The > Crime

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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 2.35 % ... [15th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 0.59 % ... [23rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 28.38 % ... [24th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 2.31 % ... [5th of 39]
Prisoners 450 prisoners [129th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 1.2% [126th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 66.7% [3rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 32 per 100,000 people [150th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 18.5% [109th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 65% [118th of 128]
United States extradition treaties > Citation
47 Stat. 2122; TS 849; 12 Bevans 482; 163 LNTS 59.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 24, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 1.5 [111st of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Gambia, The, Republic of The Gambia, The Gambia, gambia

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