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| MAURITANIAN CRIME STATS: |
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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1.16 %
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[22nd of 38]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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1.51 %
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[21st of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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35.59 %
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[17th of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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0.76 %
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[14th of 39]
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Prisoners
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1,354 prisoners |
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[119th of 0]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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48 per 100,000 people |
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[135th of 164]
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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0% |
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[125th of 128]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Mauritania is a source and destination country for children trafficked for the purpose of forced labor, begging, and domestic servitude; adults and children are subjected to slavery-related practices rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships in isolated parts of the country where a barter economy exists |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Mauritania is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increased efforts to combat trafficking, particularly in the area of law enforcement |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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11.2 |
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[55th 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; 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:
Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Al Jumhuriyah al Islamiyah al Muritaniyah, Muritaniyah
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