IDPC analysis of the UNODC World Drug Report 2017

As has been the case in recent years, the World Drug Report for 2017 – the flagship publication of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC or Office) - represents an impressive overview of the latest developments and trends in the world’s illicit drug markets, including in many instances linkages to the Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) and specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A feat of data synthesis and analysis, the combination of a new five booklet format and interactive maps and data sets on the UNODC website arguably make the Report one of the agency’s most thorough and accessible publications, or publication packages to date.

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It is important to note, nonetheless, that while the Office’s analysis is increasingly sophisticated, there is an ongoing level of uncertainty linked to the paucity of data upon which this analysis is based, especially in relation to Africa and Asia. Such uncertainty pertains to both the state of drug markets and the nexus between the ‘drug problem’ and organised crime, illicit financial flows, corruption and terrorism. This topic is the focus of Booklet 5 – what would, in previous years, have been labelled the Report’s thematic chapter. (International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), 26.01.2018)

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