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Another turbulent week in Guinea-Bissau

by | Jan 9, 2012

Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's unluckiest countries. Ravaged by the slave trade, stifled by Portuguese colonisers (when the latter were forced out, only one in 50 Guineans could read), and then saddled with a series of inept, corrupt post-independence leaders,...

What can Southeast Asia teach Africa about development?

by | Jan 9, 2012

Southeast Asia has consistently outperformed Sub-Saharan Africa in income growth. As the below chart indicates, its inhabitants were much poorer than Africans in 1960; today they are two and one-half times richer. In fact, over the past half-century, the region has...