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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	30.06 %		[2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	17.79 %		[5th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	32.48 %		[3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	7.98 %		[7th of 39]
Illicit drugs transshipment point for narcotics from South America - primarily Venezuela - to Europe and the US; producer of cannabis; rising money laundering related to drug trafficking and human smuggling
Prisoners	1,507 prisoners		[118th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	3.1%		[87th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.6%		[74th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	175 per 100,000 people		[45th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	27.7%		[82nd of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	120.8%		[58th of 128]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Guyana is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; most trafficking appears to take place in remote mining camps in the country's interior; some women and girls are trafficked from northern Brazil; reporting from other nations suggests Guyanese women and girls are trafficked for sexual exploitation to neighboring countries and Guyanese men and boys are subject to labor exploitation in construction and agriculture; trafficking victims from Suriname, Brazil, and Venezuela transit Guyana en route to Caribbean destinations
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, Guyana is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking, particularly in the area of law enforcement actions against trafficking offenders; the government has yet to produce an anti-trafficking conviction under the comprehensive Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act, which became law in 2005; the government operates no shelters for trafficking victims, but did include limited funding for anti-trafficking NGOs in its 2008 budget; the government did not make any effort to reduce demand for commercial sex acts during 2007
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	2.3		[104th of 143]

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