The Determinants of Anti-trafficking Policies – Evidence from a New Index
37 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2011 Last revised: 31 Aug 2012
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
We develop a new index measuring governments’ anti-trafficking policies for up to 180 countries over the 2000-2010 period. We assess a country’s level of compliance in the three main dimensions of anti-trafficking policies – prosecution, protection and prevention. The results show that compliance with prosecution policy is highest, while governmental efforts to protect victims of human trafficking remain weakest. Overall, developed countries perform better than the rest of the world. We employ the new indices to investigate what determines anti-trafficking policies. We find that compliance with anti-trafficking policies significantly decreases with corruption and is higher in countries that also respect the rights of women. We also find some tentative evidence for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking policies.
Keywords: human trafficking, human rights, compliance, anti-trafficking policies
JEL Classification: O15, F22, P41
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