lite capture refers to a corrupt practice where a small group of individuals with superior social status manipulate public resources, disregarding the well-being of the larger population. These elites ...

The massacre in Ngauro on December 29, 2025, was not only a moral outrage, but a direct violation of the supreme law of the land; the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011. At ...

The pre-budget seminar season has begun early. The SDPI and the FES brought together key economic ministers, economists and parliamentarians in Islamabad. The main takeaway was the elite capture of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. When Olúfemi O. Táíwò was an undergraduate at Indiana University, he ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – A new assessment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded that corruption in Pakistan is behind an economic crisis driven by “state capture” – where public policy ...

It is hard to deny or to ignore the varied inequalities plaguing Pakistan. While there are powerful groups which continue to actively safeguard their vested interests, there are several potential ...

One explanation for why America is in such rapid decline with the woke normalization of censorship, cancel culture, division, unequal justice, and depravity is found in the theory of “elite capture.” ...

Elite capture is being defined as, where the most powerful groups acquire the decisive power of the political decision making, distribution of resources and defining the status of classes. Principles ...