The great Pacific groups of atolls are such archipelagoes as the Tuamotus, Carolines, Marshalls, Gilberts, the Phoenix-Ellice group, and those scattered clusters and individual islands collectively termed the Pacific Equatorial or Line Islands. The observations forming the basis of this paper were made on visits to all these groups, except the Phoenix-Ellice and Gilberts, as well as to the Aust...

This paper studies whether national leadership shocks affect a country’s economic growth. Jones and Olken [2005] find that national leaders’ accidental death affects growth. In subsequent work, Jones and Olken [2009] find that different outcomes of assassination attempts, successful attempts versus unsuccessful ones, matter for countries’ institutions. This paper considers whether the outcome o...

Dear Editors, We read with great interest the article by Ahanger et al. entitled ‘Pro-healing effects of bilirubin in open excisionwound model in rats’ (1). In this study, the authors hypothesised that bilirubin, which is known as a strong antioxidant, could be of potential therapeutic value in wound healing in open excision wound models in rats. To validate their hypothesis, they made a full-t...