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Foreign exchange black markets in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
Jamaica and Peru were studied during the period 1990-93. This group
of case studies presents a broad view of the phenomenon in Latin
America at the beginning of the 1990s. This is not a traditional
economic analysis of foreign exchange markets, for many reasons.
Most importantly, since black markets are illegal by definition,
they are not recorded in offical statistics and the participants
are not easily identified. Nevertheless, these markets are often
widely used and well known to people living in the Latin American
countries, so it is possible to paint a reasonably accurate picture
of them. The work is based largely on interviews with black market
participants in each country. This primary means of collecting
information was desirable because of the general lack of published
sources of data or other records; though published information was
also used when available. The book discusses foreign exchange black
markets from a variety of perspectives, looking at who participates
in them, how they function, and what impacts they have on local
economies.
Money laundering has been around as long as there have been illicit
businesses, since criminals have always had to convert their
ill-gotten gains into clean financial instruments in order to
utilize them in legitimate business. Grosse explores how drug
traffickers turn profits from street sales of cocaine and crack
into bank accounts, airplanes, securities investments, and other
uses. These schemes are both creative and extensive, from shipping
suitcases of dollars to Mexico, to buying gold with drug cash in
California, to faking the export of clothing from Colombia to
Panama. The amounts of money involved are often
staggering--hundreds of millions of dollars in most cases. Grosse
also considers some of the issues raised by money laundering. He
offers advice to banks and other financial institutions that hope
to avoid becoming involved in a money laundering process. He
examines the social costs and benefits of money laundering, in
particular the charge that the rapid development of Miami in the
1980s was due directly to the hundreds of millions of cocaine
dollars invested in real estate and businesses by the "cocaine
cowboys." Increasing law enforcement has, in Grosse's opinion, only
resulted in more clever laundering schemes, and recent discussion
about legalizing narcotics will prove even more costly for the
United States.
A state-of-the-art guide to evolving functional neurosurgery
approaches from world-renowned innovators Functional neurosurgery
focuses on improving the lives of patients with epilepsy, movement
disorders, pain, and psychiatric illnesses. In recent years,
approaches ranging from open surgery to minimally invasive
techniques have been leveraged to improve daily functioning and
quality of life in people struggling with painful, highly
disruptive, and/or treatment-resistant symptoms. These approaches
focus on reducing or eliminating seizures, alleviating pain,
decreasing abnormal movements or lessening debilitating symptoms
associated with specific psychiatric disorders. Neurosurgical
Operative Atlas: Functional Neurosurgery, Third Edition, by
renowned functional neurosurgeons Robert Gross, Nicholas Boulis,
and esteemed contributors reflects the latest advances in
functional and stereotactic neurosurgical approaches. The entire
atlas has been streamlined and updated with new content, including
the use of stereotactic surgery to treat obsessive compulsive
disorder, Tourette syndrome, and major depression. Key Highlights A
full spectrum of epilepsy treatment techniques, including
intracranial monitoring with stereo-electroencephalography,
selective amygdalohippocampectomy, MRI-guided stereotactic laser
ablation, vagus nerve stimulation, and more Deep brain stimulation
(DBS) for Parkinson's disease, tremor, dystonia, epilepsy and
medically intractable pain syndromes, with in-depth implantation
guidance The use of neurosurgical and interventional techniques to
treat pain including percutaneous ablation, peripheral nerve
stimulation, spinal cord and motor cortex stimulators, and pumps
More than 300 high quality color illustrations detail anatomy and
surgical procedures This is the ultimate guide on functional
neurosurgery for managing a wide range of incapacitating
neurological conditions. Neurosurgical residents, fellows, and
veteran neurosurgeons specializing in this rapidly evolving
subspecialty will find this state-of-the-art book invaluable —
reading it cover to cover will ultimately benefit patients. Series
description The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and
Thieme have collaborated to produce the third edition of the
acclaimed Neurosurgical Operative Atlas series. Edited by leading
experts in the field, the series covers the entire spectrum of
neurosurgery in five volumes. In addition to Functional
Neurosurgery, the series also features: Spine and Peripheral
Nerves, edited by Christopher E. Wolfa and Daniel K. Resnick
Vascular Neurosurgery, edited by R. Loch Macdonald Neuro-Oncology,
edited by Behnam Badie and Mike Y. Chen Pediatric Neurosurgery,
edited by James Tait Goodrich and Robert F. Keating
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