me, and this alleged failure of the Solow model has stimulated work on endogenous-growth theory. For example, Romer [1987, 1989a] suggests that saving has

1945 the economies of both countries werein shambles

Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition

as a token of their divinity it is said that they stroked his cheeks and turned his black beard to a ruddy hue, like that of bronze.

1984 document

SAM and IVAN, as these robots are called, do not have any problem triggering World War III

war games

Different countries provide quite different innovation systems that often co-evolve with industries in which they specialise.

A four-pronged national policy approach can ensure that human development reaches everyone

Some social norms can be helpful for harmo-nious coexistence within societies, but others can be discriminatory, prejudicial and exclu-sive. Social norms in many countries reduce the choices and opportunities for women and girls, who are typically responsible for more than three-quarters  of unpaid family work.

Women and girls, ethnic mi-norities, indigenous peoples, persons with dis-abilities, migrants—all are deprived in the basic dimensions of human developmen

Human development is about enlarging free-doms so that all human beings can pursue choices that they value

IS THERE AN ANTIDOTEto theperennialseductiveness of war

Let's assume this is true

Fully sovereign states ought to enjoy international legal sovereignty (full recognition by other states and participation in international organizations), Westphalian/Vattelian sovereignty (an absence of external influences over domestic authority structures), and domestic sovereignty (the ability to govern effectively within the state’s formal borders)

the period of wage polarization documented above is most pronounced from 1989 forward

The exodus of journalists could deal a serious blow to the survival of democracy in Af-ghanistan, and both the government and the inter-national community will need to do more to ensure that Afghan reporters can operate freely and safely

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Roma live in all countries in the region; their number in Europe is estimated at 7 to 9 million, with 70 % of them living in transition countries.

ome countries, such as the Czech Republic in Central Europe, progressed rapidly on all fronts; others, such as Belarus in former Soviet Union, have barely started

Transition’ countries are supposed to be in transition from socialism to capitalism.

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e pre-industrial time

Kyoto Protocol of 1997 set emission cutting targets for a handful of developed countries, but the US pulled out and others failed to comply.

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Environmental policies make a difference. We can see countries vary greatly in the global environmental damage they inf lict and in their success at managing environmental quality in their country. F

To see how this affects the indifference curves, recall that:marginal rate of substitution = marginal disutility of abatement spendingmarginal utility of environmental quality

‘That old bag wants me to initiate her sons. She says boys have to learn how todo the sexual act and if they don’t learn when they’re young, it’s harder for them when they’re older. So she put in my contract that she’d pay me a bit more if I taught her sons.’

There were about four hundred of us living there and everyone went to this same place. It was the toilet for all those people.

I was five when she was doing this work and I looked after my little brother. I wasn’t earning yet. I used to watch my mother, who often had the food ready at three o’clock in the morning for the workers who started work early, and at eleven

And that’s when my consciousness was born.’

ell, yes, I find it a bit difficult. I’d like to start from when I was a little girl, or go back even further to when I was in my mother’s womb, because my mother told me how I was born and our customssay that a child begins life on the first day of his mother’s pregnancy.

The ceremony represented a high point in Poland's struggle with its history, a struggle that was at once about both past events and the nation's identity.

Some international relations theorists have arguedthat as states get richer they look for conquests abroad to fuel their economies

Another explanation is that global economic growth has been unbalanced withthe benefits from globalization being spread unevenly across different regions

A country with GDP per person of just $250 has a predicted probability of war onset (at some point over the next five years) of 15%, evenif it is otherwise consideredan “average” country. Thisprobability of war reduces by half for a country with GDPof just $600 per person and is reduced byhalf again to below 4% for a country withincome of $1250.

During the 1970s, more extensive coverage of wartime atrocities, including the Nanking Incident, had begun to appear in school history textbooks. But in early 1982 the minister of education urged textbook publishers to “soften their approach to Japan’s excesses during the war and put more stress on patriotism.”

You cannot be asked to apologize every day, can you?

victimhood creates a “bottomless line of moral credit.”

he complete resolution of such disputes may be unattainable

cult of personality

Although this constitution represents a significant stepforward in the transition from command economy and one-party rule tomarket economy and democratic rule,

too much federal government information has been classified

contemporaneous democracy, finding that beingdemocratic is associated with a 3.5-year in-crease in life expectancy

There are three main theoretical differencesbetween democracies and autocracies that wemight expect to influence health issues.