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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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Scaling-up treatment of depression and anxiety: a global return on investment analysis.
Dan Chisholm,Kim Sweeny,Peter Sheehan,Bruce Rasmussen,Filip Smit,Filip Smit,Pim Cuijpers,Shekhar Saxena +7 more
TL;DR: Return on investment analysis of the kind reported here can contribute strongly to a balanced investment case for enhanced action to address the large and growing burden of common mental disorders worldwide.
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Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an empirical analysis of what makes countries prone to civil war using a global panel data set and examine different determinants of civil war for the period 1960-2004.
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Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough.
Cesar G. Victora,Adam Wagstaff,Adam Wagstaff,Joanna Schellenberg,Davidson R. Gwatkin,Mariam Claeson,Jean-Pierre Habicht +6 more
TL;DR: Equity must be a priority in the design of child survival interventions and delivery strategies, and mechanisms to ensure accountability at national and international levels must be developed.
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The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and … Convergence, Period
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the World Distribution of Income by integrating individual income distributions for 138 countries between 1970 and 2000, and construct country distributions by combining national accounts GDP per capita to anchor the mean with survey data to pin down the dispersion.
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Psychosocial and material pathways in the relation between income and health: a response to Lynch et al
TL;DR: Observations support the argument that there are psychosocial pathways associated with relative disadvantage which act in addition to the direct effects of absolute material standards in rich countries.