Development and poverty eradication are stifled and

development and poverty eradication are stifled
, and foreign direct investment is deterred.
The United States is supporting the OECD, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other international partners to provide knowledge-based
platforms for international public and private stakeholders to raise awareness of the threat posed by illicit trade and illegal economy to
economic growth, development, and global security, and to share experience on practical approaches to the control of illicit activities as well as
of the negative externalities of the illicit economy. Engaging the public and private sectors through innovative public-private partner-ships will be
particularly important for securing the integrity of the global supply chains and for ensuring long-term sustainable licit commerce and
productive markets.
The steep rise in mobility of goods, people, capital, and information that has accompanied globalization is largely comprised of lawful and
beneficial exchanges, but an increasing share is illicit.
Criminal entrepreneurs and illicit networks
sometimes use or exploit
legitimate businesses and legitimate global supply chains to carry out financial frauds, industrial espio-nage, money laundering, and other illicit
activities.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue from these activities flow through the global economy
every year, distorting local economies, diminishing legitimate business revenues , deteriorat
ing
social
conditions , and fueling conflicts
.
Organized Crime Explodes the risk of WMD usage – especially true in the context
of terrorism
Louis Beres, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, Ph.D. who has lectured and
published extensively on the subject of nuclear terrorism, Routledge Books, 2019 [“Terrorism and
Global Security: The Nuclear Threat: The Nuclear Threat--second Edition, Completely Revised And
Updated” -
security-nuclear-threat-louis-ren%C3%A9-beres accessed 03-29-2021] mre
Nuclear terrorism could even spark full-scale nuclear war between states
. Such war could involve the entire spectrum of
nuclear conflict possibilities, ranging from a. nuclear attack upon a nonnuclear state to systemwide nuclear war. How might such far-reaching consequences of
nuclear terrorism come about? Perhaps the most likely way would involve a terrorist nuclear assault against a state by terrorists "hosted" in another state. For
example, consider the following scenario: Early in the 1980s, Israel and her Arab state neighbors finally stand ready to conclude a comprehensive, multilateral peace
settlement. With a bilateral treaty between Israel and Egypt already several years old, only the interests of the Palestinians—as defined by the PLO— seem to have
been left out. On the eve of the proposed signing of the peace agreement, half a dozen
crude nuclear explosives
in the one kiloton range
detonate
in as many Israeli cities. Public grief in Israel over the many thousand dead and maimed is matched only by the outcry for revenge. In response to the
public mood,
the government
of Israel
initiates selected strikes against terrorist strongholds
in Lebanon, whereupon
the
Lebanese
government and its allies retaliate
against Israel.