Paying Protection Money Is a Worse Model, but It's the Model

Gretchin peters is executive director of the centre on illicit networks and transnational organized crime, also known as sintok. Of particular focus are reconstruction projects run by u. S and other western firms that have built highways, hospitals and schools in afghanistan. While paying protection money is a terrible model, she says it often is the model. Underneath what gretchin peters calls this completely corrupt system lies a fundamental economic question s....