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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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Agricultural Growth Linkages in Ethiopia: Estimates using Fixed and Flexible Price Models
Xinshen Diao,Belay Fekadu,Steven Haggblade,Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse,Kassu Wamisho,Bingxin Yu +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a fixed-price semi-input-output model and a flexible-price economy-wide multi-market model were used to examine relevant growth options in terms of their impact on overall growth and poverty reduction in the country.
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Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development
TL;DR: The Handbook of Southeast Asia as discussed by the authors traces the uneven experiences that have accompanied development in Southeast Asia, highlighting the ongoing neoliberalization of development, issues of social and environmental justice and questions of agency and empowerment.
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Labor Embodied in Trade: The Role of Labor and Energy Productivity and Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a consumption-based metric for productivity, in which they evaluate the loss of productivity of developed nations resulting from imports from less-developed economies and offshoring of labor-intensive production.
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Social Trust and the Growth of Schooling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simple model to exemplify how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering transaction costs associated with employing educated individuals, and provided empirical evidence that trust has led to faster growth in schooling in the period 1960-2000.
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Business–NGO Collaboration in a Conflict Setting: Partnership Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ans Kolk,François Lenfant +1 more
TL;DR: Although business-NGO (nongovernmental organizations) partnerships have received much attention in recent years, insights have been obtained only from research in stable contexts, not from confli... as mentioned in this paper.