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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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Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World
Lisa Blaydes,Drew A. Linzer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that Islamophobia is predominantly a domestic, elite-led phenomenon that intensifies when there is greater competition between Islamist and secular-nationalist political factions within a country, and that the most anti-American countries are those in which Muslim populations are less religious overall and thus more divided on the religious-secular issue dimension.
The miracle of micro…nance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of introducing micro-credit in a new market was evaluated in a randomized evaluation of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India, where half of the slums were randomly selected for opening of an MFI branch while the remainder were not.
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Targeting Aid to the Needy and Deserving: Nothing But Promises?
Peter Nunnenkamp,Rainer Thiele +1 more
TL;DR: This article assess the poverty and policy orientation of bilateral and multilateral aid in different ways and find that donors appear to be less policy-oriented than poverty-oriented, while the response of donors to changing institutional and policy conditions in recipient countries turns out to be fairly weak.
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CO2 emissions, urbanisation and economic growth: evidence from Asian countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically examined the dynamic causal relationships between CO2 emissions, energy consumption, economic growth, trade openness and urbanisation for the period 1980-2014 using the poole...
Universal(ly Bad) Service: Providing Infrastructure Services to Rural and Poor Urban Consumers. Policy Research Working Paper.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the motivation for universal service, methods used to try to achieve it under monopoly service provision, how reforms might affect these approaches, and the theoretical and empirical evidence of the impact of reform on these consumers.