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1Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 2Bukavu Medical University College/Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Bukavu (ISTM-Bukavu), Bukavu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; 3Centre de Recherche sur la Démocratie et le Développement en Afrique (CREDDA), Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo; 4School of Environmental Sciences, Njala University, Freetown, Sierra Leone; 5Hygiene, State Administration, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo Correspondence: Susannah H Mayh...

We cannot end poverty without ending corruption Illustration: Collected How do corruption and poverty impact each other? I remember reading "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty", a book gifted by a German friend of mine on my birthday. A comparative study of Germany and Bangladesh can offer important insights. The difference in the levels of poverty and prosperity between the two countries is staggering. In Germany, the current rate of per capita Gross Domestic Product is USD 45,466; the country is placed sixth in the global Human Development Index ranking (a measu...

Corporations can – and must – fight for voting rights Ray Brescia, Opinion Contributor © The Hill Corporations can – and must – fight for voting rights One of the driving forces of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s was what the late Derrick Bell dubbed "interest convergence." African Americans and white elites saw value in ending Jim Crow. The Soviet Union utilized images of racist violence in its efforts to recruit non-aligned countries made up predominantly of people of color into its orbit. The march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., ...

Biden’s great tax rebalancing Apr 14,2021 - Last updated at Apr 14,2021 BOSTON — US President Joe Biden’s spending plans have been grabbing headlines, and rightly so. The administration’s relief package and infrastructure plan could remake the US welfare state by bolstering the social safety net and increasing spending on transportation, broadband, and education. But with US government spending likely to remain high after the COVID-19 pandemic, tax revenues must increase, because additional borrowing can finance only so much. Hence, the Biden administration has proposed the equally sw...

Edited by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Brilliant and engagingly written, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s “Why Nations Fail” answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? The book conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it).  Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on ear...