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Overcoming barriers to solar and wind energy adoption in two Asian giants: India and Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the use of reverse auction processes able to deliver low-price solar and wind contracts, as are being successfully employed in India, on tax and subsidy reform options, on regulatory and incentive-design strategies, on approaches to bolster grid management capacities, and on the importance of minimizing protectionist barriers.
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Patterns of tourism in the Antarctic Peninsula region: a 20-year analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined trends in passenger numbers, landings, and nationalities of passengers travelling to the Antarctic Peninsula region over 20 years of commercial cruise activity using recently digitized historical records and new data on vessel landings since 2008/09.
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Out-of-pocket health expenditures and antimicrobial resistance in low-income and middle-income countries: an economic analysis
Marcella Alsan,Marcella Alsan,Lena Schoemaker,Karen Eggleston,Karen Eggleston,Nagamani Kammili,Prasanthi Kolli,Jay Bhattacharya,Jay Bhattacharya +8 more
TL;DR: Out-of-pocket health expenditures were strongly correlated with antimicrobial resistance among LMIC, and cost-sharing of antimicrobials in the public sector may drive demand to the private sector where supply-side incentives to overprescribe are likely heightened and quality assurance less standardized.
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Rural-urban disparities in child nutrition in Bangladesh and Nepal.
TL;DR: Public health interventions aimed at overcoming rural-urban disparities in child nutrition outcomes need to focus principally on bridging gaps in socio-economic endowments of rural and urban households and improving the quality of rural infrastructure.
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Inhalable particulate matter and mitochondrial DNA copy number in highly exposed individuals in Beijing, China: a repeated-measure study
Lifang Hou,Xiao Zhang,Laura Dioni,Francesco Barretta,Chang Dou,Yinan Zheng,Mirjam Hoxha,Pier Alberto Bertazzi,Joel Schwartz,Shanshan Wu,Sheng Wang,Andrea A. Baccarelli +11 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated whether ambient PM exposure affects Mitochondrial DNA copy number (MtDNAcn) in a highly-exposed population in Beijing, China, and found that decreased blood MtDNAcn was associated with increased exposure to EC during work hours and recent ambient PM10 exposure.
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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
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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.