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Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes
TL;DR: The time for action is now, not just because better health makes economic sense, but because it is right and just.
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Explaining Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis
Lisa C. Smith,Lawrence Haddad +1 more
TL;DR: This research report examines the success of the efforts of the past 25 years to reduce preschooler undernutrition and uses an econometric model to identify the factors associated with the reduction in undernutrition.
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On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation
Simon J. Evenett,Wolfgang Keller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ resampling techniques to identify the model that is driving trade flows, and find that the accuracy of the monopolistic competition theory's prediction improves in samples where the factor endowment allocations generate a higher share of differentiated goods trade.
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Quamrul H. Ashraf,Oded Galor +1 more
TL;DR: The level of genetic diversity within a society is found to have a hump-shaped effect on development outcomes in both the pre-colonial and the modern era, reflecting the trade-off between the beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity.
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Scaling-up treatment of depression and anxiety: a global return on investment analysis.
Dan Chisholm,Kim Sweeny,Peter Sheehan,Bruce Rasmussen,Filip Smit,Filip Smit,Pim Cuijpers,Shekhar Saxena +7 more
TL;DR: Return on investment analysis of the kind reported here can contribute strongly to a balanced investment case for enhanced action to address the large and growing burden of common mental disorders worldwide.
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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.