Becker (1968) and Stigler (1970) provide the germinal works for an economic analysis of crime. The approach they outlined has been utilised to consider the response of crime rates to a range of economic, criminal and socioeconomic factors. Until recently however this did not extend to a...

São Tomé e Príncipe is a small insular country located in the Gulf of Guinea, populated by 160000 persons, living in 1000 square kilometers of a rainforest environment. The GDP pc is 1200 US$ per year, 50% of the economy is based in auto-consumption and the main engine of the remaining...

The economy of the Republic of Moldova has entered, since 2009, an economic recession, which has become deep in the last period of 2019-2021. Previously, the Republic of Moldova was severely affected by the so-called "theft of the billion" from the three state-owned banks, which caused great...