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Informationen zum Autor Guilhem Fabre is a sinologist and socio-economist, and a professor at the Faculte des Affaires Internationales at the University of Le Havre (France). Klappentext This book focuses on the money-laundering activities of illicit agents, and how their criminal economy has distorted local financial intermediation by stimulating real estate and stock market bubbles. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the money-laundering activities of illicit agents, and how their criminal economy has distorted local financial intermediation by stimulating real estate and stock market bubbles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 The Mirror of History Opium and colonization 2 Drugs and Post-Communism: The Chinese Case The rise of drug trafficking and consumption in China The new drugs war The expansion and diversification of drugs supplies Yunnan: Drugs and geopolitics in Sino-Burmese relations 3 The Socio-economic Stakes of Drug Trafficking The laundering matter The role of offshore banking 4 Japan: The Yakuza Recession Lessons from the Japanese crisis 5 Crisis and Laundering in Mexico: From the 'Tequila Effect' to the 'Cocaine Effect' 6 Crisis and Laundering in Thailand: The Provincial Godfathers' Launch on Bangkok
