A compelling and thought-provoking examination of the dangers of democracy from a leading BBC foreign correspondent, author and commentator on world affairs. Humphrey Hawksley has reported economic and political trends throughout the world for more than twenty years. In DEMOCRACY KILLS, he offers a vivid and frequently devastating analysis of our devotion to democracy. Taking the reader from Latin America, where he looks at the collapse and resurrection of the Argentine economy, to Africa, where he examines abusive child labour in the chocolate industry and to Asia, raising the question of why, if some nations get rich, do others flounder?