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...countries than in democratic ones." There is no confirmation of this oft-repeated belief in extensive empirical studies. Sure, South Korea might have grown fast enough before the re-establishment of democracy, but not so the less democratic North Korea. And democratic Botswana certainly grew much faster than authoritarian Ethiopia or Ghana...
...spread of basic education and health care, had the largest famine in recorded history in 1959-62, with a death toll that has been estimated at 30 million. Right now, the three countries with continuing famines are also in the grip of authoritarian and military rule: North Korea, Ethiopia and Sudan...
...arms embargo won't stop the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, but it'll be a blow to the cash flow of the arms industry in various former Soviet states. The U.N. Security Council late Wednesday unanimously approved a one-year embargo on the supply and maintenance of weapons to both countries in a bid to bring an end to the latest round of fighting in a border war that has cost tens of thousands of lives over the past two years. "Realistically, though, everybody knows that the embargo won't end the fighting now because both sides have stockpiled...
...Russia had initially been opposed to an arms embargo, however, and with good reason. The two countries may be facing starvation from famine, but the BBC reports that Ethiopia and Eritrea's war has cost both countries somewhere around $1 million a day for the past two years - much of it spent on weapons from Russia and its former Soviet satellites. The Russians, for example, sold Ethiopia eight Sukhoi 27 fighters 18 months ago at a cost of $150 million, and then received a similar amount from Eritrea for a batch of MiG-29 fighters and more for a handful...
...Holbrooke over the weekend described the conflict as "an old-fashioned border dispute," but this one has a flavor particular to a continent whose political map is riddled with straight lines depicting borders established with pencil and ruler in distant capitals during the colonial era. The Ethiopia-Eritrea border dates back to a 1902 treaty between Italy, which had colonized Eritrea, and Ethiopia's King Menelik II, which for the most part used rivers to separate their respective territories, but drew a straight line in the vicinity of Badme to connect two rivers. That straight line disappeared from many maps...