Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

Is There a Case for "Moderate" Inflation?

Alvin 1. Marty is a professor of economics and finance at the (enter for Business and Government, Baruch College, City University of New York. Daniel L. Thornton is an assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Jonathan Ahlbrecht provided research assistance. The authors would like to thank, without implication, Phillip Cagan, David Laidler and Allan Meltier far comments...

Why the marriage squeeze cannot cause dowry inflation

It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth. According to that explanation, termed the `marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do not re-enter the marriage market. Th...

Surgery in South Asia.

Generic endemism in South-West Asia: an overview

A provisional list of all the endemic vascular plant genera in SW Asia is presented. The area, here defined to include Turkey, the Caucasus, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Pakistan and Central Asia, has 161 genera restricted to it. By far, the greatest numbers of the endemic genera are in Apiaceae, Brassicaceae and Asteraceae; many are morphologically isolated and occur at rand...

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology in East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic immune-mediated diseases of the human central nervous system and an important cause of non-traumatic neurologic disability among young population in several countries. Recent reports from East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia have proposed a low to moderate prevalence of MS in these countries. METHODS A literature review...