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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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How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies, and investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, national accounts, and balance of payments.
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Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross- national Analyses, 1970-2008
TL;DR: In reaction to the disasters of the first half the 20th century and World War II, a dramatic world movement arose emphasizing the human rights of persons in global society as discussed by the authors, and the contrast between these disasters and the achievements of human rights was celebrated.
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Global trends in antimicrobial use in aquaculture
Daniel Schar,Eili Y. Klein,Ramanan Laxminarayan,Ramanan Laxminarayan,Marius Gilbert,Thomas P. Van Boeckel,Thomas P. Van Boeckel +6 more
TL;DR: This analysis calls for a substantial scale-up of surveillance capacities to monitor global trends in antimicrobial use and highlights the urgent need for enhanced antimicrobial stewardship in a high-growth industry with broad links to water and ecosystem health.
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Health in an Age of Globalization
Angus Deaton,Angus Deaton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that to the extent that globalization promotes economic growth, population health may benefit, and there has been substantial reductions in poverty and in international inequalities in life-expectancy over the last 50 years.
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay: Introduction to the Special Issue
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the impact of direct taxes and cash transfers on inequality and poverty reduction in Latin America, and found that indirect taxes more than offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers.