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Does Corporate Transparency Contribute to Efficient Resource Allocation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether a country's corporate transparency environment, which includes the quality of accounting information, contributes to efficient resource allocation, based on a cross-country study of 37 manufacturing industries in 37 countries.
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The Role of Environmental Management in Sustainable Business Development: A Multi-Country Investigation
TL;DR: The influence of sustainable business development on manufacturing plant operations is investigated in this article, where the impact of environmental management on plant performance is investigated with the dimensions of the four competitive capabilities of quality, delivery, flexibility and cost.
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Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions *
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which they are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic collapse of 1999.
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Multilevel Analysis of Women's Empowerment and HIV Prevention: Quantitative Survey Results from a Preliminary Study in Botswana
Fiona Greig,Cheryl Koopman +1 more
TL;DR: In Botswana, HIV prevention efforts may need to improve women's negotiating skills and access to income-generating activities, and that economic independence was the factor most strongly related to negotiating power.
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What the Numbers Say: A Digit-Based Test for Election Fraud
Bernd Beber,Alexandra Scacco +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit individuals' biases in generating numbers to highlight suspicious digit patterns in reported vote counts and find substantial evidence that manipulation occurred in Nigeria as well as in Senegal in 2007.
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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.