Palliatives In Focus: Recognising The Hidden Dangers Of Conditioning

By Ibekwe Nnamdi Chimdi In their seminal work Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that institutions are the primary cause of economic and social differences between nations. This observation is especially pertinent in contemporary Nigeria, where a troubling culture of “palliatives” has emerged – a culture that prioritises temporary, symptomatic fixes […]