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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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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: Collier and Hoeffler as discussed by the authors compare two contrasting motivations for rebellion: greed and grievance, and show that many rebellions are linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia).
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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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Prevalence and associated factors of Schistosomiasis among children in Yemen: implications for an effective control programme.
Hany Sady,Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi,Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi,Mohammed A. K. Mahdy,Mohammed A. K. Mahdy,Yvonne A. L. Lim,Rohela Mahmud,Johari Surin +7 more
TL;DR: The findings support an urgent need to start an integrated, targeted and effective schistosomiasis control programme with a mission to move towards the elimination phase of the infection in rural Yemen.
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Corruption, Democracy, Economic Freedom, and State Strength A Cross-national Analysis
Ce Shen,John B. Williamson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a structural equation-based analysis of data for 91 nations including several important determinants of cross-national variation in perceived levels of corruption was performed, including political rights, civil liberties, and press freedom.
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The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector
Wei Li,Wei Li,Lixin Colin Xu +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the political economy determinants of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunications sector and found that countries with stronger pro-reform interest groups (the financial services and the urban consumers) are more likely to reform.
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Closing the Technology Gap
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital.
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Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease in South Asia: current status and future directions
Anoop Misra,Nikhil Tandon,Shah Ebrahim,Naveed Sattar,Dewan S. Alam,Usha Shrivastava,K.M. Venkat Narayan,Tazeen H. Jafar,Tazeen H. Jafar,Tazeen H. Jafar +9 more
TL;DR: South Asians are more susceptible to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and have worse outcomes than other ethnicities, say Anoop Misra, Tazeen Jafar, and colleagues.