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Policy Brief: Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks: Evidence from IOM’s Victims of Human Trafficking Database

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-01T21:04:48Z
dc.date.available2022-04-01T21:04:48Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description.abstractThis policy brief presents the main findings of the report “Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks. The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within origin countries such as economic shocks, measured by large, discrete changes to export commodity prices and to GDP. It also explores the role that institutions play through enforcing the rule of law, providing access to justice, and implementing anti-trafficking policies, as protective factors that could weaken the link between economic shocks and an increase in human trafficking. The analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin countries, economic vulnerabilities, especially those caused by global commodity price shocks, are strongly positively correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export commodity prices is associated with an increase in the number of detected victims of trafficking of around 12 percent. The analysis suggests that good governance institutions and particularly a commitment to the rule of law and access to justice as well as stricter anti-trafficking policies and social assistance can have a limiting effect on the number of observed cases of trafficking following economic shocks.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099720003292224485/P174494-c37c2fcf-f23c-496b-b8cb-eaa23c97e956
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/37257
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37257
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectSEX WORKERS
dc.subjectEXPLOITATION
dc.subjectHUMAN TRAFFICKING
dc.subjectHUMAN SLAVERY
dc.subjectFISHING INDUSTRY
dc.subjectLOCAL LABOR MARKETS
dc.subjectHIGH-RISK JOBS
dc.subjectECONOMIC INSTABILITY
dc.titlePolicy Brief: Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risksen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from IOM’s Victims of Human Trafficking Databaseen
dc.typePolicy Brief
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okr.crossref.titlePolicy Brief: Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks
okr.date.disclosure2022-03-30
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-07T12:23:50.748139Z
okr.date.lastmodified2022-03-30T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Brief
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099720003292224485/P174494-c37c2fcf-f23c-496b-b8cb-eaa23c97e956
okr.guid099720003292224485
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum33774372
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum33774372
okr.identifier.report169988
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Poverty and Trade
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.topicSocial Development::Crime and Society
okr.unitSocial PM (SSIGL)
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