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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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Market participation of smallholder maize farmers in the upper west region of Ghana
TL;DR: The study concludes that maize is produced as a staple for household consumption and recommends that government should institute productivity enhancing measures to increase the productivity of maize as well as establish rural finance schemes to address the credit needs of smallholders.
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Beyond Agriculture versus Nonagriculture: Decomposing Sectoral Growth–Poverty Linkages in Five African Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate sectoral poverty-growth elasticities using economywide models for five African countries and find that the elasticities for non-agriculture sectors are typically higher for trade and transport services and manufacturing (agroprocessing).
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The effects of tourism and globalization over environmental degradation in developed countries
TL;DR: The empirical analysis reveals that climate change is magnified by energy use, tourism and economic growth, and an inverted U-shaped relationship is also found between international tourism and CO 2 emissions.
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The burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Brazil, 1990-2016: A subnational analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo,Mariângela Carneiro,Alberto Novaes Ramos,Jorg Heukelbach,Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro,Guilherme Loureiro Werneck,Guilherme Loureiro Werneck +6 more
TL;DR: Findings show that, despite the reduction in disease burden, NTDs are still important and preventable causes of disability and premature death in Brazil and call for renewed and comprehensive efforts to control and prevent the NTD burden.
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The Loss of Property Rights and the Collapse of Zimbabwe
TL;DR: In 2000 through 2003, the Zimbabwean government initiated a land reform policy that involved forcibly taking over white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to redistribute this property to landless blacks.