IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000175/004661.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The causes of illegal drug industry growth in the Andes, anti-drug policies and their effectiveness

Author

Listed:
  • Francisco E. Thoumi

Abstract

This essay analyses the nature of the drug policy formulation problem,describes a theory of competitive advantage in illicit drugs, draws somepolicy implications from this theory, analyses the characteristics of the maindrug producing countries that make them prone to develop the illicit drugsindustry, surveys the evolution of anti-drug policies in the Andean countries,discuses some of the main challenges confronted by the policies currentlyused, summarizes the main effects that the illegal drug industry developmenthave had on those countries, assesses the viability of drug policy reform andmakes a few suggestions to marginally modify some policies and to improvepolicy dialogue as a pre-requisite to improve drug policy effectiveness.

Suggested Citation

  • Francisco E. Thoumi, 2005. "The causes of illegal drug industry growth in the Andes, anti-drug policies and their effectiveness," Borradores de Investigación, CEODD 4661, Universidad del Rosario.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000175:004661
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://repository.urosario.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10336/3880/Fasc%C3%ADculo3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Patricia Correa, 1984. "Determinantes de la cuenta de servicios de la balanza cambiaria," Revista ESPE - Ensayos sobre Política Económica, Banco de la Republica de Colombia, vol. 3(6), pages 47-125, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mounu Prem & Juan F. Vargas & Daniel Mejía, 2023. "The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 105(2), pages 344-358, March.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Roberto Steiner, 1993. "Los capitales extranjeros en tres economías latinoamericanas," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, vol. 23(3), pages 135-150, October.
    2. Roberto Steiner, 1997. "El posible destino de los ingresos del narcotráfico," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, March.
    3. Ocampo, José Antonio, 1996. "Capital flows: savings and investment in Colombia, 1990-1995," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 35139, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    4. Hernando José Gómez R., 1988. "La economía ilegal en Colombia : tamano, evolución, características e impacto económico," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, vol. 18(3), pages 93-113, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:col:000175:004661. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Facultad de Economía (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ferosco.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.