THE WAR TAX. It was once the lexicon of the gangs, but the name quickly caught on. Today, the term War Tax1 is commonly used to describe the extortion payments demanded by gangs from impacts: it pulls back economic development, heightens insecurity, and is intimately linked with social problems like school desertion and migration to extortion and create recommendations for improvements to policies and practices aimed at countering extortion.
Our work is based on 46 bibliographic sources, the collection of primary and secondary quantitative data, and in-depth interviews with 47 people including victims of and hired a polling company to develop a national survey measuring the scope of extortion.
