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The authors describe one of the challenges of international law enforcement: the immunity of governmental officials to prosecution. They point to the privileged government elites & discuss the limitations & impacts of the immunity of bestowed upon high-ranking officials. Examining the relationship between the immunity & the prosecution of political elites, the authors, present the instruments of national, semi-international & international courts & the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in particular. They conclude that the immunity of governmental officials is necessary in order to ensure the capacity of the government to carry out its duties. However, immunity should only last as long as the person holds office. Adapted from the source document.

SUMMARYThis paper examines the distribution of economic research as catalogued in the Journal of Economic Literature across countries of the world and attempts to explain those patterns. We report the number of articles published on each country and estimate a series of regressions to understand this pattern. We find that measures of a country's size (physical and economic), connections with the outside world and data availability explain much of the pattern of research. We also find that tourism receipts, whether English is an official language, and the number of economic research institutions are significantly correlated with the amount of research done on a country. After controlling for all the variables, we find only three regions (all in Africa) with significantly less research published by economists in Journal of Economic Literature cataloged articles than North America.