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Crime and government expenditure in Brazil: Estimating the impact of government security spending on homicide rates
Gomes, Camila - 2018
Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between security spending and the rate of homicides. The … leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141929
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Criminalidade e despesas públicas no Brasil: Estimativa do impacto dos gastos públicos em segurança sobre as taxas de homicídio
Gomes, Camila - 2019
Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … may be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between securi ty spending and the rate of homicides … security expenditure leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534401
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Crime and government expenditure in Brazil : estimating the impact of government security spending on homicide rates
Gomes, Camila - 2018
Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between security spending and the rate of homicides. The … leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926990
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Criminalidade e despesas públicas no Brasil : estimativa do impacto dos gastos públicos em segurança sobre as taxas de homicídio
Gomes, Camila - 2019
Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies … may be due to issues of endogeneity when estimating the relationship between securi ty spending and the rate of homicides … security expenditure leads to a decrease of 0.6 per 100,000 people in the number of homicides. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169784
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Citizen Security in Belize
Peirce, Jennifer; Veyrat-Pontet, Alexandre - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
In the face of rising crime rates and increasingly complex transnational and local criminal dynamics, Belize's limited institutional resources are overstretched. Youth violence and gangs are of particular concern in urban areas, where lack of education and employment options converge with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700502