A few years ago I wrote a brief for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) for their ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s capacity to respond more effectively to transnational organised crime) programme. The brief was about using seizures data to understand the scope and scale of transnational organized crime (TOC). ENACT were interested in whether […]
Measuring transnational organized crime
Background Under the EU funded project, ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s capacity to respond more effectively to transnational organized crime), the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, the Institute for Security Studies and Interpol are developing an Index to provide a multi-dimensional measure of the scale and scope of organized crime in Africa. Project ENACT commissioned a […]
Critique of Hsiang and Sekar paper linking legal ivory sale to an increase in illegal killing of elephants
There has been considerable attention on the paper released by Solomon Hsiang and Nitin Sekar on the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) website that claims that the sale of ivory to China in 2008 is the cause of the increase in illegal killing of elephants and demand for ivory. I looked at this paper with interest […]
