Latin America's Crime Tax
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BizTocLatin America’s Crime Tax
By Guillermo Ortiz, Project Syndicate | Aug 31, 2026 Even excluding lives lost, communities displaced, and families ravaged, the economic costs of organized crime in the region produce a bleak picture, shaving 0.5–2 percentage points off annual GDP growth in the most affected countries. That, too, represents a hefty
Latin America's Crime Tax
Even excluding lives lost, communities displaced, and families ravaged, the economic costs of organized crime in the region produce a bleak picture, shaving 0.5–2 percentage points off annual GDP growth in the most affected countries. That, too, represents a hefty human toll.
Combating crime costs 78 per cent of public spending on education throughout the region, if you talk about economic costs – investment, productivity and lost growth – since “the human cost of lost lives, displaced communities and shattered families no figure could capture without trivializing.” Read more
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