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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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Better the Devil You Don't Know: Type of Corruption and FDI in Transition Economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is not the level but rather the type of corruption that affects FDI in transition economies, and that investors prefer to deal with an unknown evil - the arbitrariness of corruption - rather than a known one - the pervasiveness of corruption.
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Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings
TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative model of polygyny is used to find that enforcing monogamy lowers fertility, shrinks the spousal age gap, and reverses the direction of marriage payments.
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How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of renewable energy on carbon emissions, in presence of education, natural resource abundance, foreign direct investment, and economic growth for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the period of 1990-2015, was analyzed.
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Prevalence of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, and cascade of care in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional, population-based study in rural and urban Malawi.
Alison J Price,Amelia C. Crampin,Alemayehu Amberbir,Ndoliwe Kayuni-Chihana,Crispin Musicha,Terence Tafatatha,Keith Branson,Debbie A Lawlor,Elenaus Mwaiyeghele,Lawrence Nkhwazi,Liam Smeeth,Neil Pearce,Elizabeth Munthali,Beatrice Mwagomba,Charles Mwansambo,Judith R. Glynn,Shabbar Jaffar,Moffat J. Nyirenda +17 more
TL;DR: Overweight and obesity, hypertension, and diabetes were highly prevalent in urban and rural Malawi, more so in urban residents, the less poor, and better educated than in rural, the poorest, and least educated participants.
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Patterns of Metropolitan Development: What Have We Learned?
TL;DR: In the past 35 years, a great deal of theoretical and empirical work has been carried out on cities and metropolitan areas in both developed and developing countries with market-oriented economies.