Catching Up, Structural Transformation, and Inequality: Lessons from Asia

Which OIC countries are catching up? Time Series Evidences with Multiple Structural Breaks

Abstract In this paper, income per capita convergence hypothesis is tested in selected OIC countries. For this purpose, we use the time series model and univariate KPSS stationary test with multiple structural breaks (Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005)) over the period 1950-2008. The results show that most OIC countries could not catch up toward USA. Although because of some positive term of tra...

Innovation and catching-up

Food Allergy--Lessons from Asia

OBJECTIVE : This is a review on published data available on food allergy in East Asia and a discussion on the insights that it offers. METHODS : PubMed searches were made for terms food allergy and anaphylaxis, in combination with Asia. RESULTS : There is a paucity of population-based prevalence studies on food allergy in Asia. Certain unique food allergens, such as buckwheat, chestnuts, ch...

Lessons from Mazibuko : Persistent Inequality

This essay will explore the idea that in the wake of the Constitutional Court’’s decision in Mazibuko v City of Johannesburg,1 activists who are committed to dismantling persistent racial and class inequality should weigh carefully the costs and benefits of using rights-based litigation as a strategy to advance their interests. In putting forward that general idea, I want to make two central po...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...