Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Posted Content
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).
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
References
More filters
Posted Content
Driving factors of carbon dioxide emissions and the impact from Kyoto protocol
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the EKC behavior for CO2 emissions could be proved on the behalf of institutional regulations and analyze the driving factors of CO2 for developed and developing countries to test the theory of the Kuznets Curve in the context of environmental regulations using a static and dynamic panel data model.
BookDOI
Corruption and trade tariffs, or a case for uniform tariffs
TL;DR: By explicitly accounting for the interaction between importers and corrupt customs officials, the authors argues that setting trade tariff rates at a uniform level, limits public official's ability to extract bribes from importers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Agricultural R&D, technology and productivity
TL;DR: Estimates of the increased R&D expenditures needed to feed 9 billion people by 2050 and how these should be targeted, especially by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), show that the amounts are feasible and that targeting sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can best increase output growth and reduce poverty.
Journal ArticleDOI
Achieving sustainable development goals: predicaments and strategies
TL;DR: The SDGs have been criticised for being universal, broadly-framed, inconsistent and difficult to quantify, implement and monitor as discussed by the authors, which makes them difficult to quantify, implement, and monitor.