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The rise of the mega-region
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a global dataset of night-time light emissions to produce an objectively consistent set of mega-regions for the globe and draw on high-resolution population data to estimate the population of each of these regions.
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Poverty, Risk Aversion, and Path Dependence in Low-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Mahmud Yesuf,Randall Bluffstone +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors find high risk aversion and evidence that constraints have important impacts on risk-averting behavior with perhaps significant implications for long-term poverty in the highlands of Ethiopia.
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The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
TL;DR: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize as discussed by the authors, and there appear to be limits to the degree to which aid can contribute to development outcomes.
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Tourism and Economic Growth in Latin American Countries: A Panel Data Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 and employed a generalised least squares AR(1) panel data model.
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Sharing global CO2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters.
Shoibal Chakravarty,Ananth P. Chikkatur,Heleen de Coninck,Stephen W. Pacala,Robert H. Socolow,Massimo Tavoni +5 more
TL;DR: The income distribution of a country is used to estimate how its fossil fuel CO2 emissions are distributed among its citizens, from which a universal cap on global individual emissions is derived and corresponding limits on national aggregate emissions from this cap are found.
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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.