{"id":8706,"date":"2013-04-30T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2013-04-30T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T11:28:10","slug":"the-largest-black-markets-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-largest-black-markets-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Black Markets In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/043013_1125_TheLargestB11.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist produced a chart that looked at estimates of the size of various black markets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drug trafficking is worth an annual $320 billion a year and is thought to be by far the largest black market in the world.<\/li>\n<li>21% smaller is the second placed market for counterfeit and pirated goods, worth $250 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Human trafficking is worth $32 billion and is 68% bigger than the market for wildlife trafficking. Human organ trafficking is worth $0.6 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The numbers are inexact and come from various years. The estimates are based, in part, on seizures by border control agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about other markets and their comparative size, in a striking chart over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21576931\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21576931\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist produced a chart that looked at estimates of the size of various black markets: Drug trafficking is worth an annual $320 billion a year and is thought to be by far the largest black market in the world. 21% smaller is the second placed market for counterfeit and pirated goods, worth $250 billion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/043013_1125_TheLargestB11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}