International smuggling -- from knockoff handbags to illegal drugs -- isn't anything new. But the international black market is expanding faster than most of us realize -- seven times faster than legal trade. We take a look at how this market is changing lives and transforming the ways in which governments do business.
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Hijacking The Global Economy
Listen Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005 at 1:32 p.m. in EconomyGuests
Moisés Naím
Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy; and author of "Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy" (Doubleday)
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