The Latin AmericanandAsiancrisisshowed how countriescansuffer from a decline in infrastructure, leaving a weakerfoundationfor long-termeconomicgrowth that hitsthe poorest thehardest.
Written by experts who pioneered use of genetic data to search for the aggressive fish, the paper disagrees with government scientists who say many of the positive Asian carp DNA hits recorded in or near the lakes in recent years could have come from other sources, such as excrement from birds that fed on carp in distant rivers.