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Technology usage lags
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence on the differences in the intensity with which ten major technologies are used in 185 countries across the world and find that technology usage lags are large, often comparable to lags in real GDP per capita.
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Agriculture as a sector of opportunity for young people in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors shed light on how to harvest the "youth dividend" in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating jobs in agriculture, and the agriculture that attracts the youth will have to be profitable, competitive, and dynamic.
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Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure.
TL;DR: This synthesis develops an integration of climate change projections and poverty, wealth, and population metrics that provides a critical missing piece to the climate change debate and should facilitate the formulation of climate policies that account for international variations in the threat ofClimate change across a range of socioeconomic dimensions.
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Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets
Felix Groba,Jing Cao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the development of solar PV and wind energy technology component (WETC) exports from China and the competitive position of the country's renewable energy industry are examined.
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The Institutional Basis of Gender Inequality: The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
TL;DR: The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) as mentioned in this paper measures long-lasting social institutions defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and combines them into a multidimensional index of women's deprivation caused by gendered social institutions.
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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.