Beyond convergence: Poland and Turkey en route to high income

African Development: Beyond Income Convergence

In examining some big questions on African development, we provide evidence that dynamics of some development indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 homogenous panels based on regions (Su...

From CARs to TRUCKs and Beyond: Safely en Route to Adoptive T-cell Therapy for Cancer

This year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting (December 2016, San Diego, USA) had an emphasis on leukemia and adoptive therapy, as did previous ASH meetings. But this year, ASH also had a dedicated session on “Adoptive Immunotherapy: CAR-T Toxicity and Clinical Trials”, and experience with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in various clinical trials to date was pr...

En route to personalized prophylaxis.

Predicting a patient’s outcome reliably is perhaps the one of the most challenging aspects of the art of medicine. In this issue of Blood, Ay and colleagues introduce science to this art by validating the Khorana risk score (the first risk assessment model that predicts how likely a cancer patient is to develop symptomatic VTE) and confirming the value of 2 biomarkers, D-dimer and soluble P-sel...

Income Convergence In Iranian Regions

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...