In post-independence Africa, coalition governments have produced the highest economic growth rates and highest levels of peace. Dominant liberation movements, military, religious and single-leader governments have produced catastrophic failures causing state collapse, civil wars and kleptocracy.
Brazil’s newly elected government, under Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, will face energy-transition and decentralization issues during critically important years in the fight to curb climate change. <b>Livia Neves</b> reports from Rio de Janeiro.