Jaitman, Laura - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-36
Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic …, the costs of crime represent at least 3.5% of the regional gross domestic product, twice as much as in developed countries …. Despite the magnitude of the security problem, the region is lagging in the production of rigorous research on crime and the …