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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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Resource Consumption of New Urban Construction in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the consumption of material resources dedicated to Chinese building construction through a survey and analysis of the material intensity of three major building types, and provided a basis for outlining the emerging life-cycle issues of recent additions to the built environment and of continued construction.
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Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether direct state involvement actually makes a positive contribution to the economic performance of newly incorporated firms in China's urban economy and show that direct intervention into the governance of firms is likely to yield negative economic effects at the firm level.
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International Remittances and the Household: Analysis and Review of Global Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing world, and found that countries located close to a major remittance-sending region (like the United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international transfers, and that while the level of poverty in a country has no statistical effect on the amount of international transfers received, for those countries which are fortunate enough to receive remittance, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty.
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Mitigation costs in a globalized world: climate policy analysis with REMIND-R.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the hybrid model REMIND-R and its application in a climate policy context based on the EU target to avoid a warming of the Earth's atmosphere by more than 2°C compared to the pre-industrial level.
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Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets
TL;DR: Peri et al. as mentioned in this paper show that immigration to rich countries has been, overall, rather balanced between college and non-college educated, and the adjustment of demand and technology imply that the general equilibrium effects of immigrants on relative and absolute wages have been small.