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The White Man's Burden
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2006-06-24. It has received 1072 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: White (horse).read more
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Constructions of Neoliberal Reason
TL;DR: In this article, the Chicago School was used to relocate Neoliberalism and found the Chicago school 4. Between Gotham and the Gulf 5. Creative Liberties 6. Decoding Obamanomics
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Counting Chickens when they Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth
TL;DR: The authors re-analyse data from the three most influential published aid-growth studies, strictly conserving their regression specifications, with sensible assumptions about the timing of aid effects and without questionable instruments.
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Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight how the current explanations of opportunity recognition, based on entrepreneurial knowledge and economic motivation, are insufficient for modeling the recognition of opportunities for sustainable development and propose that entrepreneurial knowledge plays a central role by moderating these effects.
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Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of preserving soil capital and its relationship to human civilization and food security, and discuss trends concerning the availability of arable agricultural land, different scenarios, and their limitations, analyzed and discussed.
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Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate one attempt to make local institutions more egalitarian by imposing minority participation requirements in Sierra Leone and test for longer term learning-by-doing effects, finding positive short run effects on local public goods provision and economic outcomes, but no sustained impacts on collective action, decision-making processes, or the involvement of marginalized groups (like women) in local affairs, indicating that the intervention was ineffective at durably reshaping local institutions.
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Weak links in the chain: A diagnosis of health policy in poor countries
TL;DR: The evidence is shown showing two weak links in the chain between government spending for services to improve health and actual improvements in health status, which suggests that market failures are the least severe for relatively inexpensive curative services, which often absorb the bulk of primary health care budgets.
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How to help the poor: piecemeal progress or strategic plans?
TL;DR: The White Man's Burden opens with an upside-down account of recent innovations in the control of malaria— a portrayal that exemplifies Easterly's unreasonable antipathy to bold strategies of action.
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