Joe Studwell: belief

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…But say, predictively, the places that have cut disease burden down the most should do better first, right? There’s an implied prediction. Which particular places do you think those are? I haven’t looked in sufficient detail, country by country, to be able to say where. I would say that in Central Africa, Rwanda’s done very well on health. I’d say that Ethiopia has done very well on health, but I do think that it’s just a generally positive story across the continent of what has been done in terms of reducing this horrific disease burden that really has dominated African history. Bruce Sacerdote of Dartmouth — he has a famous article where he argues — or some would say shows — that the longer a country has been colonized for, the better it’s likely to be doing. Do you agree with that result? And do you think it’s true for Africa?…

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