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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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Will trade sanctions reduce child labour?: The role of credit markets
Saqib Jafarey,Sajal Lahiri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the interaction between credit markets, trade sanctions and the incidence of child labour in a two-good, two-period model with unequally wealthy households.
Dependency, Democracy, and Infant Mortality: A Quantitative, Cross-National Analysis of Less Developed Countries - eScholarship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present quantitative, sociological models designed to account for cross-national variation in infant mortality rates, and find support for hypotheses derived from the dependency perspective suggesting that multinational corporate penetration fosters higher levels of infant mortality.
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Knowledge creation, diffusion, and use in innovation networks and knowledge clusters : a comparative systems approach across the United States, Europe, and Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, a knowledge system perspective from a knowledge-based perspective is presented for the United States, European Union, and Japan in the context of the Transatlantic Innovation Infrastructure Networks (TIN).
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Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adults.
TL;DR: Energy under- and overreporting are highly prevalent in Jamaica and adjusting for implausible reporting may help to reduce bias in diet–health outcome associations, according to models of food group–obesity associations.
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Aiding and Abetting: Human Rights INGOs and Domestic Protest
Amanda Murdie,Tavishi Bhasin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of human rights international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) on domestic antigovernment protest were studied. And they found that increases in human rights INGO activities reflecting a greater commitment to the domestic population are associated with higher levels of both violent and nonviolent protest.