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John Luke Gallup
John Luke Gallup (born January 16, 1962) is an American economist. Gallup got his PhD in 1994 at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996 to 2000 he was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. From 2008 to 2009 he was Fulbright Scholar at the Vietnam University of Commerce in Hanoi. He worked with Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger on the issue of geography. Publications * ''Far-Flung Europe: What is the Economic Impact of Geography?'' European Union Committee of Regions for The Macroeconomic Situation of the Outermost Regions Conference, 2006. * ''The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam in the 1990s.'' In: Paul Glewwe, David Dollar and Nisha Agrawal (editors). ''Economic Growth and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons from Vietnam.'' Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2004. * With Alejandro Gaviria and Eduardo Lora. ''Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America.'' Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. * Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California At Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,800 undergraduate and 13,200 graduate students. Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics. The university founded and maintains close relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos, and has played a prominent role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project and the discovery of 16 chemical elements to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics. Berkeley is also k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisha Agrawal
Nisha, meaning "night" in Sanskrit (निशा, ''nishā''), is an Indian female given name, and may refer to: People *Nisha Noor (1962-2007), Indian actress *Nisha Ganatra (born 1974), Canadian director, writer * Nisha Patel-Nasri (1977–2006), murdered British policewoman * Nisha Rajagopal (born 1980), Carnatic singer *Nisha Agarwal (born 1989), Indian actress *Nisha Adhikari (born 1986), Nepali actress *Nisha Warsi (born 1995), field hockey player Characters Film and television *Nisha Bains, a station café waitress on ''Postman Pat'', a BBC stop motion animated children's television series aimed at pre-school children *Nisha Chopra, a character played by Juhi Chawla in the 1999 film '' Arjun Pandit'' *Nisha Choudhury, a character played by Madhuri Dixit in the 1994 Bollywood film '' Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'' *Nisha Patel / Nisha Kumar, a character played by Mumtaz in the 1971 film '' Tere Mere Sapne'' *Nisha Thappar, a character played by Karisma Kapoor in the 2001 film '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stata Technical Bulletin
Stata (, , alternatively , occasionally stylized as STATA) is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including biomedicine, epidemiology, sociology and science. Stata was initially developed by Computing Resource Center in California and the first version was released in 1985. In 1993, the company moved to College Station, TX and was renamed Stata Corporation, now known as StataCorp. A major release in 2003 included a new graphics system and dialog boxes for all commands. Since then, a new version has been released once every two years. The current version is Stata 17, released in April 2021. Technical overview and terminology User interface From its creation, Stata has always employed an integrated command-line interface. Starting with version 8.0, Stata has included a graphical user interface based on Qt framework which uses me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meric S
Meric or Méric or Meriç may refer to: Méric * Méric Casaubon (1599–1671), French-English classical scholar Meriç Places and geography * Meriç (river), Turkish name for the Maritsa which runs through the Balkans * Meriç, the Turkish name of Mora, Cyprus, a town in Northern Cyprus * Meriç, Edirne, a town and district of Edirne Province, Turkey People * Meriç Banu Yenal (born 1988), Turkish female basketball player * Meriç Yurdatapan (born 1972), German-Turkish female jazz singer * Hurşut Meriç Hurşut Meriç (born 31 July 1983) is a Dutch professional footballer who last played for Turkish club Cizrespor. Meriç plays primarily as a left winger. Career Born in Amsterdam, Meriç has played for Türkiyemspor, ADO Den Haag, Gençlerbi ... (born 1983), Dutch-Turkish male footballer See also * Maritsa (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryann P
Mary Ann or Maryann or Mary Anne may refer to: People * Mary Ann Booth (1843–1922), American microscopist * Mary Ann Cunningham (1841-1930), Canadian temperance activist * Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1813-1878), American poet * Mary Ann Hilliard (1860-1950), Irish nurse and suffragette * Mary Anne Hobbs (born 1964), BBC Radio 6 DJ * Mary Ann Lee (1824-1899), American ballerina * Mary Ann Lyth (1811-1890), British missionary, translator, teacher * Mary Ann Magnin (1850–1943), co-founder of I. Magnin, an upscale women's clothing store in San Francisco, California. * Mary Ann Nichols (1845–1888), victim of Jack the Ripper * Mary Ann Turcke, President, Bell Media, Canada * Mary-Anne Williams, Australian thought leader on innovation, computer scientist, roboticist, and AI researcher * Mary Ann Weitnauer, American electrical engineer Music * Mary Ann Acevedo (born 1987), Puerto Rican singer and songwriter * Mary-Ann, original name of the Finnish gothic metal band To/Die/For * ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon L
Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, aka the House of Gordon, a Scottish clan Education * Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia * Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts * Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan * Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales * Gordon College of Education, a public college in Haifa, Israel Places Australia *Gordon, Australian Capital Territory *Gordon, New South Wales * Gordon, South Australia *Gordon, Victoria *Gordon River, Tasmania *Gordon River (Western Australia) Canada *Gordon Parish, New Brunswick *Gordon/Barrie Island, municipality in Ontario * Gordon River (Chochocouane River), a river in Quebec Scotland *Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development, social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies, including State corporations. The IDB has four official languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Its official names in the other three languages are as follows: History At the First Pan-American Conference in 1890, the idea of a development institution for Latin America was first suggested during the earliest efforts to create an inter-American system. The IDB became a reality under an initiative proposed by President Juscelino Kubitshek of Brazil. The Bank was formally created on April 8, 1959, when the Organization of American States dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Journal Of Agricultural Economics
The ''American Journal of Agricultural Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of agricultural, natural resource, and environmental economics, as well as rural and community development. Published five times per year, it is one of two journals published by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, along with ''Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy''. It was established in 1919, at which point it was called the ''Journal of Farm Economics''. Editors The current editors are Amy Ando (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Marc Bellemare (University of Minnesota), Jill McCluskey (Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant uni ...), and Jesse Tack ( Kansas State University). References External links * Journal page on Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scientific American
''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ''Scientific American'' is owned by Springer Nature, which in turn is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. History ''Scientific American'' was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter (painter), Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large format newspaper was released August 28, 1845. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Journal Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is an Arlington, Virginia-based non-profit organization of scientists, clinicians, students and program professionals whose longstanding mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor. ASTMH members work in areas of research, health care and education that encompass laboratory science, international field studies, clinical care and country-wide programs of disease control. The current organization was formed in 1951 with the amalgamation of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, founded in 1903, and the National Malaria Society, founded in 1941.Burke, Donald, M.D."American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Centennial Celebration Address", 2003-12-3. Retrieved 2009-7-17 ASTMH has more than 2,700 members from all regions of the world including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey D
Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film *Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States *Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia * Jeffrey's sketch, a sketch on American TV show ''Saturday Night Live'' *'' Nurse Jeffrey'', a spin-off miniseries from the American medical drama series ''House, MD'' *Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa People with the surname * Alexander Jeffrey (1806–1874), Scottish solicitor and historian * Charles Jeffrey (footballer) (died 1915), Scottish footballer * E. C. Jeffrey (1866–1952), Canadian-American botanist *Grant Jeffrey (1948–2012), Canadian writer *Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934), American activist, suffragist and community organizer *Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002), American philosopher, logician, and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is Geography Destiny? Lessons From Latin America
''Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America'' is a book written by John Luke Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria, Eduardo Lora and published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which documents an advanced step of the rediscovery of geography by economists initiated by Paul Krugman in the early 1990s, however in another, more deterministic direction. Content Inspired by the works of David Landes, Jared Diamond and Jeffrey Sachs, considered as “champions of the rediscovery of geography”, the book is the result of “a series of studies on the influence of geography on Latin American development”. It is part of the Latin American Development Forum Series sponsored by the IDB, by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and by the World Bank. It is based on nine case studies funded by the IDB’s Latin American Research Network. Suggestions and corrections came from Ricardo Hausmann, chief economist of the IDB. Gallup, Gaviria and Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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