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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 697
Citations - 91557
Jeffrey D. Sachs is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 130, co-authored 692 publications receiving 86589 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey D. Sachs include World Health Organization & University of British Columbia.
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Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration
TL;DR: The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established by agreement of more than 120 economies, with almost all the rest eager to join as rapidly as possible as mentioned in this paper, and the agreement included a codification of basic principles governing trade in goods and services.
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Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
TL;DR: The authors showed that countries with a high ratio of natural resource exports to GDP tended to have low growth rates during the subsequent period 1971-89, even after controlling for variables found to be important for economic growth, such as initial per capita income, trade policy, government efficiency, investment rates, and other variables.
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The curse of natural resources
TL;DR: The authors showed that there is little direct evidence that omitted geographical or climate variables explain the curse of natural resources, or that there was a bias resulting from some other unobserved growth deterrent.
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The economic and social burden of malaria
TL;DR: There are multiple channels by which malaria impedes development, including effects on fertility, population growth, saving and investment, worker productivity, absenteeism, premature mortality and medical costs.