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This study aims to investigate the impact of remittance costs on trade-based money laundering (TBML) and provide insights into the relationship between remittance costs and TBML, particularly focusing on import over-invoicing and low-income trade partners.

Utilizing an extended gravity model for TBML, bilateral data from Vietnam spanning 2011 to 2019 are analyzed to examine the correlation between remittance costs and TBML.

The study reveals a positive association between remittance costs and TBML, highlighting the significance of reducing remittance costs to curb TBML.

The research is limited by the availability of data and focuses solely on Vietnam, implying potential variations in other contexts.

Policymakers should consider reducing remittance costs as a strategy to combat TBML effectively.

Lowering remittance costs could contribute to the prevention of illicit financial activities, fostering economic stability and social development.

This study provides novel insights into the relationship between remittance costs and TBML, offering valuable implications for policy formulation and anti-money laundering (ML) efforts.

This chapter aims to trace how the theoretical frameworks of actuarialism and managerialism have been slowly introduced into the Latin–American scientific debate, focusing on the Argentinian and Chilean examples. With this objective in mind, we explore the journey of these theories in our region focusing on the work. Additionally, we address other academic contributions that highlight “actuarial techniques” of risk as central features to analyze contemporary penalty, policing tactics, or criminal court outcomes and practices (Hannah-Moffat, 2013a, 2013b; Harcourt, 2007; Marutto & Hannah-Moffat, 2006), even overlapping concepts like actuarialism and managerialism (Barker, 2009; Kohler-Hausmann, 2018). Subsequently, we describe the acclimation of these theories in Argentina and Chile, characterized for a limited impact on the scientific debate. We suggest that the main reason for this little impact is the different stages of the criminal justice system between Global North and Global South countries. While in the first one, actuarialism and managerialism were born to explain especially the field of risk analysis, and secondarily, the role of the new public management; in the case of Latin America, managerialism has been observed through the criminal justice system reform developed in the last three decades. This observation has focused especially on some organizational transformations and, for this reason, the analysis about actuarialism and risk assessment have been marginals. We concluded that although the influence of the literature about actuarialism and managerialism from the Global North in Latin–American is real, it is not possible to extrapolate all its elements to the penal systems in the region.