It'd be awesome if the application was dateable, so that you could compare the conditions of certain african countries throughout different presendential eras to spot improvements of deficiencies of leadership, and see how they grew.
I'd like to see where pre-91 Somalia stood to see what our best scores ever were. It was still pretty young, but certainly incrementally better than it is now.
Not really, this is a famous study published ten years ago.
http://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf
The problem with Somalia is the lack of agriculture. Most African countries do not have famines because everyone is a farmer and can feed his family. Somalis are mostly pastoral and are dependent to a larger extent on a less stable food production model. This explains why Somalia has higher GDP per capita than some African countries that never have famines where 260,000 people die. An average person in Burundi may earn $500 a year, but he probably can feed himself unlike the Somali who earns $600 a year and starves periodically.
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