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Question 8 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2020 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

174 incidents of piracy were reported to the International Maritime Bureau last year, with Somali pirates responsible for only three. The rest ranged from the discreet theft of coils of rope in the Yellow Sea to the notoriously ferocious Nigerian gunmen attacking and hijacking…

The author ascribes the rise in piracy today to all of the following factors EXCEPT:

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