New research shows modern slavery is more lucrative than it has ever has been, with sex traffickers reaping the greatest rewards
Slave traders today make a return on their investment 25-30 times higher than their 18th- and 19th-century counterparts.
Siddharth Kara, a slavery economist and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Business School, has calculated that the average profit a victim generates for their exploiters is $3,978 (£3,030) a year. Sex trafficking is so disproportionately lucrative compared to other forms of slavery that the average profit for each victim is $36,000.
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