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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	0.68 %		[24th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	6.14 %		[10th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	70.33 %		[3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	1.43 %		[9th of 39]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,993		[23rd of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,986		[12th of 55]
Illicit drugs increasingly important transit country for South American cocaine enroute to Europe; enabling environment for trafficker operations thanks to pervasive corruption; archipelago-like geography around the capital facilitates drug smuggling
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Guinea-Bissau is a source country for children trafficked primarily for forced begging and forced agricultural labor to other West African countries
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - for the second year in a row, Guinea-Bissau is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons, as evidenced by the continued failure to pass an anti-trafficking law and inadequate efforts to investigate or prosecute trafficking crimes or convict and punish trafficking offenders
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	10.8		[56th of 143]

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