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Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America

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The relationship between the cocaine trade and urban land markets in South America has been overlooked by the mainstream economics and urban studies literature. This paper examines two avenues through which the cocaine trade can have a large impact on urban development in producer countries: (i) through an employment multiplier effect similar to that of other legal exports, and (ii) through money laundering using urban real estate. We test our hypotheses using the Bolivian case and find that urban growth patterns are closely related to fluctuations in cocaine production.

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  • Ignacio A. Navarro, 2011. "Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2011-009, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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