Re-evaluating Turkey’s global relationships and its shift toward the South-East Asian region

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

Progress Toward Measles Elimination — South-East Asia Region, 2003–2013

In 2013, the 66th session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region adopted the goal of measles elimination and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control by 2020 after rigorous prior consultations. The recommended strategies include 1) achieving and maintaining ≥95% coverage with 2 doses of measles- and rubella-containing vaccine in every dist...

Role of Aerosol and its distribution over south Asian region

Re-evaluating the territorial embeddedness of multi-national branch plants: evidence from the South Tyrol region in North-East Italy

The paper re-evaluates the regional embeddedness of multinational manufacturing branch plants in view of recent work on global production networks and extra-regional links. It is argued that the predominance of extra-regional production linkages are not necessarily detrimental to regional economies. They can even compensate for weak territorial innovations systems in non-core regions. The argum...

Source-receptor relationships for East Asian sulfate

Source-receptor relationships between East Asian sulfur dioxide emissions and Northern Hemisphere sulfate concentrations J. Liu, D. L. Mauzerall, and L. W. Horowitz Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Int. Affairs, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA Received: 18 January 2008 – Accepted: 13 February 2008 – Published: 18 March 2008 Corres...