Why Poor Countries Are Poor

Corruption and an astonishing series of negative feedback loops, it turns out.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33258.html

The system dynamics folks over at PA Consulting would have a field day with this one. Too bad Cameroon can't afford them... maybe that's where the World Bank should step in.

(thanks, globalchange.umich.edu, for the spaghetti diagram image)