A01=Guilhem Fabre
Asian economic crises
Author_Guilhem Fabre
Bangkok International Banking Facility
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Category=KJ
centres
drug
Drug Trafficking
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farming
FATF
financial crime impact on global markets
Fiscal Evasion
Golden Triangle
illicit capital flows
Indian Opium
Institutional Revolutionary Party
IOI
Jao Pho
Japanese GDP
Junta
Khin Nyunt
laundering
LDP
Liberal Democratic Party
Miguel De La Madrid
Military Junta
money
offshore
Offshore Banking
Offshore Centres
offshore financial centres
Offshore Investment Funds
organised crime networks
poppy
Poppy Farming
post-communist transitions
Sino Burmese Border
Thai Political System
traffickers
trafficking
UNDCP
Yakuza influence Japan
Young Men
Zhang Xiaoling
Product details
- ISBN 9781138878914
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drug trafficking is the most visible part of the profits of organized crime, which have grown considerably since the end of the cold war. The mirror of history shows us the impact of the drug trade in the colonization of Asia. The post cold war geopolitical context reproduces elements of the past, with new opportunities for drug trafficking in the globalization process, as can be seen in the example of China, and the lasting impunity in terms of money laundering. With the growing role of offshore locations in the global financial system, criminal prosperity has even affected the economic stability of some countries. This book presents a new and heterodox interpretation of the post cold war financial crisis, by focusing on the unexplored dimension of illicit actors.
The Mexican crisis of 1994 and its 'tequila effect' is analyzed as a model of a 'cocaine effect' from the local laundering of profits from the sale of drugs in the US. The Japanese crisis of the 1990s is put in relation to the economic influence of the Yakuza on the real estate bubble, which had the effect of postponing necessary market adjustments. And the Thai crisis of 1997 is analyzed in the light of massive money laundering of institutional and criminal networks, whose undeclared profits represent about 10% of GDP.
Guilhem Fabre is a sinologist and socio-economist, and a professor at the Faculte des Affaires Internationales at the University of Le Havre (France).
