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Catch Us If You Can: Election Monitoring and International Norm Diffusion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that international norms can be generated through a diffusely motivated signaling process, motivated by the case of election observation, and evaluate this theory with an original global dataset on elections and election observation.
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Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia: What Do Subnational Data Show?
TL;DR: Indonesia has an impressive record of economic growth and poverty reduction over the past two decades as discussed by the authors, however, the growth-poverty nexus appears strong at the aggregate level.
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High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Theresa S. Betancourt,Stephanie Simmons,Ivelina Borisova,Stephanie Erin Brewer,Uzo Iweala,Marie de la Soudière +5 more
TL;DR: The state of the Sierra Leonean educational system before and after the war and its role in the reintegration ofFormer child soldiers is examined and the perspectives of former child soldiers, their caregivers, and community members on the role of education in reintegrating former child Soldiers into society are presented.
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Tourist arrivals and macroeconomic determinants of CO2 emissions in Malaysia
TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of carbon dioxide emission with special emphasis on tourism development in Malaysia were investigated within a multivariate framework, which includes real GDP, energy consumption, financial development, and urbanization, cointegration and causality tests were applied to determine the relationship in the variables.
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Who Made Peak Car, and How? A Breakdown of Trends over Four Decades in Four Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of underlying trends to per-capita car travel development since the 1970s in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA.
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The quality of government
TL;DR: The authors investigated empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries and found that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance.
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Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Ronny Bruffaerts,Wai Tat Chiu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Ronald C. Kessler,Jean Pierre Lepine,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,David R. Williams +21 more
TL;DR: There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
TL;DR: The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities for our time as discussed by the authors is a book review of the book written by Jeffrey Sacks (2005), an American renounced economist and director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
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Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units
Rudolf de Groot,Luke Brander,Sander van der Ploeg,Robert Costanza,Florence Bernard,Leon Braat,Michael Christie,Neville D. Crossman,Andrea Ghermandi,Lars Hein,Salman Hussain,Pushpam Kumar,Alistair McVittie,Rosimeiry Portela,Luis C. Rodriguez,Patrick ten Brink,Pieter van Beukering +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an overview of the value of ecosystem services of 10 main biomes expressed in monetary units and showed that most of this value is outside the market and best considered as nontradable public benefits.
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Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, Transport Costs, and Trade
Nuno Limão,Anthony J. Venables +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure and found that poor infrastructure is an important determinant of transportation costs, especially for landlocked countries.