How Black Markets Have Adapted to – and Shaped – the COVID-19 Crisis
How Black Markets Have Adapted to – and Shaped – the COVID-19 Crisis
Monday, June 29, 2020
IMPAKTER
Co-author Topher McDougal, associate professor of economic development & peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego, writes about how the COVID-19 crisis has affected many aspects of society, but perhaps none in such a complex and poorly understood way as in black markets, from booming sales of fake medicines and guns in the U.S. to rising illicit export of wildlife and poaching in Africa.