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Africa > Guinea-Bissau > Crime

GUINEAN CRIME STATS:   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 0.68 % Time series [24th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 6.14 % Time series [10th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 70.33 % Time series [3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 1.43 % Time series [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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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Last updated: 01/04/03; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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: Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Republica da Guine-Bissau, Guine-Bissau

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