Turns out... one of the easiest ways to create a better economy is to eliminate malaria. It's that bad of a disease, that it contributes to poverty at the natio

Turns out... one of the easiest ways to create a better economy is to eliminate malaria. It's that bad of a disease, that it contributes to poverty at the national level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Economic_impact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Economic_impact It's more difficult to expand and modernize your economy when a significant fraction of your population contracted mild brain damage from preventable infections.