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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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Predicting early death in patients with traumatic bleeding: development and validation of prognostic model.
Pablo Perel,David Prieto-Merino,Haleema Shakur,Tim Clayton,Fiona Lecky,Fiona Lecky,Fiona Lecky,Omar Bouamra,Rob Russell,Mark Faulkner,Ewout W. Steyerberg,Ian Roberts +11 more
TL;DR: This prognostic model can be used to obtain valid predictions of mortality in patients with traumatic bleeding, assisting in triage and potentially shortening the time to diagnostic and lifesaving procedures (such as imaging, surgery, and tranexamic acid).
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Determinants of renewable energy consumption: Importance of democratic institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a panel threshold model to examine the indirect effect of democratic institutions on renewable energy consumption and found that democratic institutions play a significant role in green energy consumption in less democratic countries.
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Welfare Works: Explaining Female Legislative Representation
TL;DR: The authors argue that the key link lies in welfare state policies that free women to enter the paid workforce, provide public sector jobs that disproportionately employ women, and change the political interest of working women enough to create an ideological gender gap.
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Major Challenges Facing Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Asia and Solutions for Mitigating Them
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on four major reasons that slowed the SME growth in Asia including: lack of finance, lack of comprehensive databases, low level of R&D expenditures, and insufficient use of information technology and provides remedies for mitigating them.
Blind optimism : challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries
TL;DR: There is an urgent need to reassess the arguments used in favour of scaling-up private-sector provision in poor countries, and the evidence shows that prioritising this approach is extremely unlikely to deliver health for poor people.