Looking at the spread of the coronavirus you could be forgiven for concluding that it mainly affects high-income countries or regions that are democratic or have independent media.
Leaving China aside, initially most cases were reported from places like South Korea, Japan or Taiwan. Then the focus moved to the European Union, the biggest cluster of high-income democracies in the world.
And Europe has now been declared the e...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO.