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Prevalence of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, and cascade of care in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional, population-based study in rural and urban Malawi.
Alison J Price,Amelia C. Crampin,Alemayehu Amberbir,Ndoliwe Kayuni-Chihana,Crispin Musicha,Terence Tafatatha,Keith Branson,Debbie A Lawlor,Elenaus Mwaiyeghele,Lawrence Nkhwazi,Liam Smeeth,Neil Pearce,Elizabeth Munthali,Beatrice Mwagomba,Charles Mwansambo,Judith R. Glynn,Shabbar Jaffar,Moffat J. Nyirenda +17 more
TL;DR: Overweight and obesity, hypertension, and diabetes were highly prevalent in urban and rural Malawi, more so in urban residents, the less poor, and better educated than in rural, the poorest, and least educated participants.
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Patterns of Metropolitan Development: What Have We Learned?
TL;DR: In the past 35 years, a great deal of theoretical and empirical work has been carried out on cities and metropolitan areas in both developed and developing countries with market-oriented economies.
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Exchange Rate, Exchange Rate Volatility and Foreign Direct Investment
Kozo Kiyota,Shujiro Urata +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of changes in the real exchange rate and its volatility on FDI and found that the depreciation of the currency of the host country attracted FDI, while the high volatility of the exchange rate discouraged FDI.
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AID, Policy and Peace: Reducing the risks of civil conflict
Peter Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed the effects of economic policy and the receipt of foreign aid on the risk of civil war and found that aid and policy do not have direct effects upon conflict risk, but both directly affect the growth rate and the extent of dependence upon primary commodity exports.
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The sustainable development oxymoron: quantifying and modelling the incompatibility of sustainable development goals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test, quantify and model the inconsistency of SDGs and conclude that the SDG agenda will fail as a whole if we continue with business as usual.
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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.