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Effects Of Smuggling In The Philippines

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Smuggling
Smuggling is a very serious problem here in the Philippines and around the world. Locally, you could just go into a market and see an overwhelming amount of smuggled products being sold. Those of which usually were in the form of lotion, chocolates, designer bags, and many other products. For an ordinary buyer, it really is tempting to buy such, for they are often priced almost half their original cost. However, despite how practical it seems to just go with it, one can’t just forget the negative consequences of smuggling. Smuggling deprives the government of revenues from uncollected taxes and customs duties, which further distorts the prices of commodities in local communities (ukessays.com, n.d). Moreover, it leads to production slowdown, reduced consumer spending, and bankruptcies on the part of the legal sectors. It was causing the other legal businesses who complied with the law a decrease in their income, which they could have earned if not because of the competition between their products and the smuggled ones.

Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
The world is an open market place for prostitution and sex trafficking, both of which playing a substantial part on the illegal underground economy. Here, the women’s economic desperation, cases of drug addiction, broken home, parental neglect, or their past histories (e.g. sexually abused as a child), are being used as a means by the pimps to lure –though some are forced- the prostitutes to work for the pimps’

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