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E-Government: Challenges and Opportunities in Botswana
TL;DR: In this article, the challenges encountered in e-government implementation, as well as the potential opportunities available in the context of Botswana society are examined, and a detailed examination and analysis of the published eGovernment vision and strategy is presented, together with a review of relevant literature.
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Economic Inequality, Legitimacy, and Cross-National Homicide Rates:
TL;DR: In this article, the causal linkages from economic inequality to homicide among nation-states were investigated. But, the authors posit that the effect of economic inequality on the number of homicides in each country is independent of the level of inequality.
Trends in delivery care in six countries
TL;DR: The results suggest that inequities among women of different backgrounds may be increasing emphasizing the importance of subnational analyses to ensure that the women least likely to seek care are not marginalized.
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Education, Social Equality and Economic Growth: A View of the Landscape
Thorvaldur Gylfason,Thorvaldur Gylfason,Thorvaldur Gylfason,Gylfi Zoega,Gylfi Zoega,Gylfi Zoega +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, three different measures of education, including gross secondary-school enrollment, public expenditure on education relative to national income and expected years of schooling for girls, were compared to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient and economic growth across countries.
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Africa's Overgrown State Reconsidered: Bureaucracy and Economic Growth
TL;DR: This paper showed that African public bureaucracies are not as large as often portrayed, that they have been getting smaller, and that reducing their size alone has not been a prescription for economic revival.
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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.