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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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11.2 %
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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50 %
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[8th of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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1.6 %
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[38th of 39]
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Prisoners
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0 prisoners |
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[160th of 168]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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0 per 100,000 people |
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[161st of 164]
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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68.8% |
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[116th of 128]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Niger is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; caste-based slavery practices, rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships, continue in isolated areas of the country - an estimated 8,800 to 43,000 Nigeriens live under conditions of traditional slavery; children are trafficked within Niger for forced begging, forced labor in gold mines, domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, and possibly for forced labor in agriculture and stone quarries; women and children from neighboring states are trafficked to and through Niger for domestic servitude, sexual exploitation, forced labor in mines and on farms, and as mechanics and welders |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Niger is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking in 2007; in particular, measures to combat and eliminate traditional slavery practices were weak; the government's overall law enforcement efforts have stalled from 2006; while efforts to protect child trafficking victims were steady, the government failed to provide services to or rescue adult victims subjected to traditional slavery practices, and made poor efforts to educate the public about traditional slavery practices in general |
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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19.9 |
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[35th of 143]
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