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The government of Mali passed a law against excavating and exporting the wonderful terra-cotta sculptures from the old city of Djenne-jeno, but it could not enforce it. ███ ██ █████████ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ █████████ ██ ██████████████ ████████████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ████ ███████████ ███████████ ██████████ ████ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ███████ ███████ █████ ███████ █████ █████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ████ ████ ██ ████ █████ ████ ██████████████ ████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ ███ █████ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ █████████████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████

Problem · Malian artifacts looted

Mali government outlawed excavating and exporting artifacts. Couldn't enforce the laws. Looting and selling on the black market. Loss of archaeological knowledge.

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Potential Solution · UNESCO declares these artifacts as "cultural property"

The artifacts are property of the culture (as opposed to private property). Many countries strengthened UNESCO doctrine by prohibiting export of "cultural property."

Application to Mali · It would seem that these artifacts are protected by UNESCO doctrine

Problem with UNESCO Doctrine · Disincentivizes good record keeping

Because records are evidence of illegal black market activities.

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Alternative Solution · Legalize, regulate, and tax

Mali could have legalized and regulated excavation and taxed export. This would have been a better solution.

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Problem-analysis

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Unsupported. This isn’t stated in the passage as a way that some countries have made use of the UNESCO doctrine.

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This is stated in P2.

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Unsupported. This isn’t stated in the passage as a way that some countries have made use of the UNESCO doctrine. Instead, this is part of the author’s proposal that is discussed in P4.

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Unsupported. This isn’t stated in the passage as a way that some countries have made use of the UNESCO doctrine.

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Unsupported. This isn’t stated in the passage as a way that some countries have made use of the UNESCO doctrine. This isn’t mentioned in the passage.

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