Poverty is often regarded as the "root cause" of trafficking, but the linkages between poverty, lack of development and trafficking are complex. For example, there is some evidence to suggest that victims of cross-border trafficking are more likely to originate from middle-income rather than...

Poverty is often regarded as the "root cause" of trafficking, but the linkages between poverty, lack of development and trafficking are complex. For example, there is some evidence to suggest that victims of cross-border trafficking are more likely to originate from middle-income rather than...

Focuses on the methodologies used by the two organizations that have produced the available global estimates of human trafficking, the U.S. government and the ILO.

Using the ILO's database constructed for the purpose of its global estimate on trafficking and forced labour, examines the determinants of one specific form of human trafficking, namely trafficking for forced sexual exploitation.