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 […]
Heckle and Chide: Saving Lives on Africa’s Roads
By James Habyarimana and William Jack A recent spate of horrific road crashes has brought the dangers of the developing world’s roads to light. A recent bus crash in western Kenya killed all 41 people on board, and 51 perished when a bus went off a cliff in Peru. Global statistics corroborate these accounts: 1.3 million […]