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OECD/UNESCAP/ADB WORKSHOP ON ASSESSING AND IMPROVING STATISTICAL QUALITY: MEASURING THE NON-OBSERVED ECONOMY (11-14 MAY 2004 : BANGKOK) COUNTRY PAPER : MACAO, CHINA
In Macao’s gaming industry, the junket operators underwrite the “dead chips”c for the casinos in return for rebates from reselling these chips to the gamblers, in addition to a share in the gambling receipts. The junket operators promote the service to gamblers and earn discounts on the chips’ face value. (...) Expenditure of non-residents in the domestic market (i.e. expenses on gaming, accommodation and others) is estimated by using the administrative record on annual gross gambling receipts, results of the Visitor Expenditure Survey and other tourism statistics such as the number of visitor arrivals and the hotel room rates; b.
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Score: 1344144 - daccess-ods.un.org/acce...STAT/WAISQ/MACAO, CHINA&Lang=E
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But figures are hard to come by, as most of these revenues go to offshore companies and will continue to do so as long as U.S. states rule on-line gambling as being illegal. One exception is Nevada, where tolerance of gambling extended into cyberspace last January when on-line sports book betting became legal. (...) Developed at a cost of $8 million, Sportxction allows gamblers to bet in real time on a live sporting event from their home PCs or from a dedicated kiosk at a casino. (...) ''We're in the brokering business, not the gambling business,'' Mr. Mindes says. While Nevada intends to corral on-line gambling within its borders, an estimated 47 jurisdictions around the globe currently license or regulate on-line gambling.
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Score: 1259245.8 - https://www.itu.int/newsarchive/wtd/1999/iht10/tho-07.html
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ARTICLE 7: In the event money which have been put as bets in gambling, as well as money from those which the manager of a gambling den/site, head of the gambling, gambling agents, persons who assist in settling gambling payment, person who assumes function as a cashier, The Compendium of Cambodian Laws, Volume 2 3 intermediary and gamblers… have been seized, they shall recorded properly in a proces- verbal by the agents of the competent authority and sent to the court. (...) These gambling devices/equipments listed above shall be seized as evidences. (...) ARTICLE 11: Anybody who appeared himself/herself to defend gamblings of any kind or gambling den /site any where shall be subjected to imprisonment from one (1) years to five (5) years.
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Score: 1238907.5 - https://www.wto.org/english/th...e/khm_e/WTACCKHM3A3_LEG_42.pdf
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Search Close Search UNICEF Fulltext search Max Press release Engagement of adolescents in gambling is alarmingly high in Georgia, UNICEF report finds The findings of the research on knowledge, attitude and practice of gambling among adolescents were presented to a wider public 25 February 2022 UNICEF/Geo-2018/Blagonravova Available in: English ქართული Tbilisi, Georgia, 25 February 2022 – More than one in ten adolescents say they practice gambling with different frequencies, more than a quarter of them are active gamblers and gamble for money a few days a week or more often. (...) Other motivators for starting to gamble are boredom and the perception that gambling is popular. (...) The study found that the level of awareness of adolescents about the risks associated with gambling and gambling addiction is low. The majority of adolescents who gamble do not talk to their parents about gambling and its risks.
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Score: 1200140.2 - https://www.unicef.org/georgia...gh-georgia-unicef-report-finds
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Worldwide, the prevalence of gambling is 2 to 4 times higher among adolescents than among adults, with up to 8% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 being pathological gamblers. (...) Ghassan Khalil, UNICEF Representative in Georgia. “Early exposure to gambling may lead to a higher risk of developing problem gambling. (...) Adolescents with less knowledge about gambling and problem gambling are more likely to gamble and achieve a problem gambling level than those who have greater knowledge about the harm of gambling.
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Score: 1200140.2 - https://www.unicef.org/georgia...-placed-national-public-health
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TANGANYIKA: PETITION FROM MR. A.J. SIGGINS UNDATED
As a result, much time will be lost through sickness and the search for suitable articles of diet, Gamblers, racketeers and prostitutes will flock to the operational centres and take a heavy toll of the natives' earnings.
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Score: 1085733.2 - https://daccess-ods.un.org/acc...pen&DS=T/PET.2/55/ADD.1&Lang=E
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Like gaming, repetitive gambling behaviour can potentially lead to gambling disorder associated with distress or impairment. (...) Harms negatively impact the gamers/gamblers themselves as well as their families and community. (...) Download Read More Documents 28 June 2017 The epidemiology and impact of gambling disorder and other gambling-related harm Gambling has a long pedigree, going back millennia and pervading many cultures and societies.
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Score: 1037772.6 - https://www.who.int/health-topics/addictive-behaviour
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Some of its provisions include:   Criminalizing corrupt practices by South Africans on foreign soil; Establishment of a blacklist of businesses and business people who have been found guilty of corruption; Criminalization of acts of corruption by any member of a legislative authority, a judicial officer and members of the prosecuting authority; Auctioneers and gamblers are also specifically targeted in the Act; Property used in the commission of corrupt practices, or which is the proceeds of corruption may be seized by the State after judicial processes.  
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Score: 984495.4 - https://www.un.org/webcast/mer...statements/safri_2031209en.htm
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Title AB-1 Joe Weinert, "U.S. Gambling Losses Hit $68.7B Last Year", The Press of Atlantic City (New Jersey) (17 August 2003) AB-2 United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media & Sport, The Future regulation of remote gambling: a DCMS position paper (April 2003) AB-3 United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media & Sport, A safe bet for success – modernising Britain's gambling laws , para. 4.48 AB-4 Examples of scratch card games AB-5 "The Money Laundering Guidelines for Financial Institutions" issued by the ONDCP under Section 10 of the MLPA (9 September 2002) AB-6 Statutory Instruments Antigua and Barbuda, 2001 No 16 , "The Interactive Gaming and Interactive Wagering Regulations of 2001" AB-7 Schedules A to E to the Gaming Regulations AB-8 Mutual Evaluation Report on Antigua & Barbuda, Second Round September 2002 , endorsed by the CFATF Plenary XVII (18 March 2003) AB-9 Electronically accessed complaint form on Antigua Gaming Directorate Website: http://www.antiguagaming.gov.ag/complaints.asp AB-10 National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report ("NGISC"), (18 June 1999) AB-11 NGISC Final Report - Executive Summary (18 June 1999) AB-12 George Will, "Gambler Nation," The Washington Post (27 June 1999) AB-13 American Gaming Association, State of the States: The AGA Survey of Casino Entertainment (2003) AB-14 Chart entitled "Overview of gambling in the United States" AB-15 Jason N. Ader, Bear Stears & Co, Inc, North American Gaming Almanac 2002‑2003 [Extracts] AB-16 United States Government Accounting Office, GAO/GCD – 96-28 Money Laundering: Rapid Growth of Casinos Makes them Vulnerable , Appendix III (4 January 1996) AB-17 United States Government Accounting Office, GAO – 03-89, Internet Gambling: An Overview of the Issues (December 2002) AB-18 Rod Smith, "Casino Industry Technology: Open Wide, New Progressive Slot System Lets Las Vegas Company Serve Russian Gamblers," Las Vegas Review Journal (2 September 2003) AB-19 United States Department of Defense, Report on the Effect of the Ready Availability of Slot Machines on Members of the Armed Forces, Their Dependents, and Others (2001) AB-20 David G. (...) Ct. 2587 (2002) AB-84 Gambling Law in Five States and Their Effect on Internet Gambling, Enclosure 1 to the GAO Interim Report on Internet Gambling (23 September 2002) AB-85 Statement of John G.
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Score: 977575.4 - https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/285r_g_e.doc
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