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The World Bank Group has rushed to make country response funds worth USD12bn available on a fast-track basis. The diversion of resources and equipment has undermined efforts to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256504
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Voters increasingly associate homelessness with two other political issues: concern about immigration and a perception that urban crime is increasing. This is complicating efforts…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273456
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Quarantine measures imposed across Central America’s Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) come amid falling trends in violent crime, and speculation that…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253018
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This is down largely to the revival of international tourism following the COVID-19 pandemic. Recovery looks set to continue into 2023, boding well for ongoing revenue and…
Reports of cybercrimes increased by 13% in the financial year to June 2021, according to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). Agencies linked to foreign governments and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264943
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This indicates a potential move away from US-sponsored, militarised strategies of coca eradication, cocaine interception, the ‘decapitation’ of trafficking networks and the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB271579
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The announcement followed the approval of several legislative amendments earlier last month, relating to family issues such as corporal punishment and neglect of the elderly. The…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258680
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The meetings follow a period of increased strain in the bilateral relationship, over the US arrest, and subsequent release, of former Mexican Defence Minister General Salvador…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262396
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While the pandemic has both amplified and illuminated areas of racial, gender and economic inequality, it has also overshadowed a range of worsening societal problems that had…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262016
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Hotels and restaurants, private construction and manufacturing suffered the sharpest declines. A gradual reopening of the economy since June should drive increased activity in the…