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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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The condition of rural populations in much of the global South is indeed dire-most of the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day live in the countryside as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
too fine for undergraduate readers who are new to agrarian debates. On the whole, however, the book is accessible and deserves to be widely read. The condition of rural populations in much of the global South is indeed dire-most of the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day live in the countryside. This book offers many important insights into why this is the case, and how the current regime of global capitalism works against a repetition of the agrarian transition that brought wealth and security to the global North.read more
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[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].
Dean T. Jamison,Lawrence H. Summers,George Alleyne,Kenneth J. Arrow,Seth Berkley,Agnes Binagwaho,Flavia Bustreo,David M. Evans,Richard G A Feachem,Julio Frenk,Gargee Ghosh,Sue J. Goldie,Yan Guo,Sanjeev Gupta,Richard Horton,Margaret E Kruk,Adel A. F. Mahmoud,Linah K. Mohohlo,Mthuli Ncube,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,K. Srinath Reddy,Helen Saxenian,Agnes Soucat,Karene H. Ulltveit-Moe,Gavin Yamey +24 more
TL;DR: A recent report by the Lancet Commission revisited the case for investment in health and developed a new investment framework to achieve dramatic health gains by 2035 as discussed by the authors, which is, a reduction in infectious, maternal, and child mortality down to universally low levels.
Journal ArticleDOI
Neglected tropical diseases
TL;DR: Although there are proven strategies to control several NTDs, these diseases continue to cause a massive burden of morbidity and there is urgent need for more basic and operational research, drug and vaccine development, and greater prioritization by governments and international agencies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
TL;DR: The role of the state in the pursuit of land is discussed in this article, where Wolford, Wolford et al. discuss the role of state involvement, land-grabbing and counter-insurgency in Colombia.
Journal ArticleDOI
Innovation and Growth: How Business Contributes to Society
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the main goal of business is to develop new and innovative goods and services that generate economic growth while delivering important benefits to society, and they argue that small changes in economic growth can yield very large differences in income over time, making firm growth particularly salient to societies.
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Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions, and Income Inequality
Dominik Hartmann,Dominik Hartmann,Miguel Guevara,Miguel Guevara,Miguel Guevara,Cristian Jara-Figueroa,Manuel Aristarán,César A. Hidalgo +7 more
TL;DR: This article showed that economic complexity is a significant and negative predictor of income inequality and that this relationship is robust to controlling for aggregate measures of income, institutions, export concentration, and human capital.