In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill every day of his life, only to watch it come tumbling down as he reached the top. Economic development in many developing countries is a Sisyphean task,

On October 18th, 2020 socialist Luis Arce won a surprise victory over the moderate Carlos Mesa. Pre-election polls had predicted a close race between the two candidates, and a run-off victory for Carlos Mesa before the elections. However,

Through September and Ocober of 2020, the government of Narendra Modi ushered three major reforms to India’s agricultural sector. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Indian government created a series of regulations intended to protect farmers from exploit...

Rajesh Chouhan, a construction worker in the city of Bangalore, walked for ten consecutive days and 1,200 miles to reach his home village of Srinagar Babaganj in Bihar. Rajesh Chouhan was one of millions of migrants who,

From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of adequate testing capacity has bedeviled developing countries attempts to contain COVID-19. The most important type of testing for COVID-19 is PCR testing,

Every year, more than 3.4 million people die of waterborne illnesses across the world, the overwhelming majority of whom are young children. Diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, and parasitic worms can cause young children to suffer extreme diarrhe...

On August 31st, 2020 the government of Rwanda announced the arrest of Paul Rusesabagina, the man who sheltered thousands of Hutus during the 1994 genocide, was arrested on charges of terrorism, arson, murder and kidnapping.

On August 9th, 2020 Alexander Lukashenko cruised to victory in Belarus’s presidential election, winning 80% of the vote according to official statistics. The people of Belarus have begged to differ, and the country has seen a wave of massive peaceful p...

On August 19th, 2020 the seven day average for the number of deaths from COVID-19 peaked at 978 and has for the past nine day slowly declined, marking an important turning point in India’s fight against COVID-19. Youyang Gu’s prediction models,