By Jacob Patterson-Stein Why are some countries rich and other countries poor? From Plato to Adam Smith to the Simpsons, the best and brightest have wrestled with this question. In a new working paper, “Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait,” presented at the Georgetown Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) seminar […]
Will “Never Again” Hold True in the Central African Republic?
By Kristine Johnston Twenty years ago, the world stood by as over 800,000 people were killed in the Rwandan Genocide. The world vowed, “Never again.” And yet, it is never quite so simple as that. In the two decades that have passed, we’ve seen civil wars begin and end in Sierra Leone and Liberia, sectarian […]