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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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Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades
TL;DR: An uneven distribution of urbanization at different economic levels is found, on average, large cities in the low-income and lower-middle-income countries had the highest urban population growth, and BUA expansion in the upper- Middle East countries was more than three times that of the high- income countries.
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The global family planning revolution : three decades of population policies and programs
Warren C. Robinson,John A. Ross +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the reader back to the first efforts by 23 countries to hammer out novel policy positions and field programs to deal with the threat of the population bomb.
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Don’t blame the weather! Climate-related natural disasters and civil conflict:
TL;DR: The results from research on this topic are mixed and the academic community appears to be far from a co... as mentioned in this paper, and the results from the research on climate change and security are mixed.
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Infrastructure development and economic growth in India
Pravakar Sahoo,Ranjan Kumar Dash +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of infrastructure in economic growth in India for the period 1970-2006 on the basis of the empirical framework developed by D.A. Aschauer (Is public expenditure productive? Journal of monetary economics, 23 (2), 1989, 177-200).
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The Gains from Privatization in Transition Economies: Is "Change of Ownership" Enough?
TL;DR: In contrast to the original "Washington Consensus," which had a tendency to equate change-of-title with privatization, the authors finds that economic performance gains come only from "deep" privatization, that is, when change of title reforms occur once key institutional and "agency"-related reforms have exceeded certain threshold levels.