Globalization and Drug Trafficking
Globalization has brought about the liberalization of worldwide markets and the opening of borders thus facilitating trade, movement of people as well increased interdependence and interaction. The process has yielded enormous benefits but at the same time provided ground for the thriving of harmful practices such as drug use and tracking. Globalization has facilitated the supply of drugs by enhancing its efficiency and increasing distribution opportunities as well as obstructing any supply reduction activities.
Impact of Drugs and Tracking on Development
Drugs and tracking affect the development because the crime erodes human and social capital by downgrading the quality of life and causing trained workers to stop working. The innocent citizens are afraid of increased crimes as well as the impact of victimization thus hindering access to employment, education, and dampening the accumulation of properties. Drugs and trafficking discourage foreign and domestic investors because the crimes lead to the formation of the underground black market thus causing the cost of doing business in such a country expensive, it also drives away tourists and affects international relationship (Miron 835, 838).
The Role of Globalization in Drug Tracking
Globalization has endowed the drug tracking through the availability of efficient communication and technological tools as well as world economic system. The developing countries are not able to allocate sufficient resources to combat the vice because they are grappling with poverty and other economic challenges. However, continuous financial and technical support from the developed countries to the developing nations as well as continued penalization of states that permit the outlawed offshore financial services which serve as centers for money laundering could assist in blocking the illegal trade. Individual countries could support the international war on drug trafficking by disrupting any illicit manufacturing, cultivation or transportation of any banned drug substances by international law as well as prosecuting the perpetrators.
Works Cited
Jeffrey A. Miron, The Economics of Drug Prohibition and Drug Legalization, 68 SOC.RES. (2001) .835,838
