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Does the Leader's Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education, and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Raphaël Franck,Ilia Rainer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of ethnic favoritism in sub-Saharan Africa's underdevelopment was examined using data from 18 African countries, and the primary education and infant mortality of ethnic groups were affected by changes in the ethnicity of the countries' leaders.
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Industrial biomanufacturing: The future of chemical production
TL;DR: The progress made in industrial biomanufacturing is reviewed, including the tradeoffs between highly tunable biocatalysts and units of scale, and a model based on economies of unit number is proposed to reduce capital costs per unit capacity.
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Travel risk perception and travel behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020: a case study of the DACH region
Larissa Neuburger,Roman Egger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between perception of COVID-19, travel risk perception and travel behaviour among travelers in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and found that travel risk perceptions were positively associated with travel behavior.
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A Political Economy of Aid
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model how the size of a leader's support coalition and government rev- enues aect trades between policy concessions and aid, and find that aid bene- ect donor and recipient leaders, while harming the recipient's but not the donor's, citizenry.
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview
Gerald C. Nelson,Elena M. Bennett,Asmeret Asefaw Berhe,Kenneth G. Cassman,Ruth DeFries,Thomas Dietz,Achim Dobermann,Andrew P. Dobson,Anthony C. Janetos,Marc A. Levy,Diana Marco,Nebojsa Nakicenovic,Brian C. O'Neill,Richard B. Norgaard,Gerhard Petschel-Held,Dennis S. Ojima,Prabhu Pingali,Robert T. Watson,Monika Zurek +18 more
TL;DR: The authors in this paper provide an overview of what the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) call "indirect and direct drivers" of change in ecosystem services at a global level.
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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.