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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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Education, Social Equality and Economic Growth: A View of the Landscape
Thorvaldur Gylfason,Thorvaldur Gylfason,Thorvaldur Gylfason,Gylfi Zoega,Gylfi Zoega,Gylfi Zoega +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, three different measures of education, including gross secondary-school enrollment, public expenditure on education relative to national income and expected years of schooling for girls, were compared to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient and economic growth across countries.
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Africa's Overgrown State Reconsidered: Bureaucracy and Economic Growth
TL;DR: This paper showed that African public bureaucracies are not as large as often portrayed, that they have been getting smaller, and that reducing their size alone has not been a prescription for economic revival.
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The Impact of Human Rights Organizations on Naming and Shaming Campaigns
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the increasing presence of human rights organizations in such states is the critical link between the local and the international, and that increases in the number of such groups contributes significantly to the generation of Amnesty International urgent actions, one of the most often-utilized tools in naming and shaming campaigns against human rightsabusing regimes.
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The consequences of tobacco tax on household health and finances in rich and poor smokers in China:an extended cost-effectiveness analysis
Stéphane Verguet,Cindy L Gauvreau,Sujata Mishra,Mary MacLennan,Shane M. Murphy,Elizabeth Brouwer,Rachel Nugent,Kun Zhao,Prabhat Jha,Dean T. Jamison +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used extended cost-effectiveness analysis methods to estimate, across income quintiles, the health benefits (years of life gained), the additional tax revenues raised, the net financial consequences for households, and the financial risk protection provided to households, that would be caused by a 50% increase in tobacco price through excise tax fully passed onto tobacco consumers.
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Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies
TL;DR: In the first decade of the twenty-first century, countries within Sub-Saharan Africa reached milestones that seemed impossible only ten years ago: macroeconomic stability, sustained economic growth, and improved governance as mentioned in this paper.