The importance of community's health followed by the consideration of endogenous growth models has led to an increase in health expenditure of countries to speed up economic growth and development. This has made the efficiency of health production function to an essential issue especially in developing countries. Based upon this, the present study with employing the stochastic frontier analysi...

There is an ongoing inquiry concerning the nature and role of globalization in terms of social processes, economic development, culture and tourism, and last, but not least, as it relates to spatial change. Although globalization has been an active field of research in social sciences, which is reflected by the large number of studies being published on this issue since the early 1990s (Dicken,...

in recent years, the issue of globalization has become the focus of researchers and policymakers. there are some indicators to measure and evaluate globalization in different countries. the kof index is the most famous index which measure three aspects of globalization: economic, political, and social. in this paper, the impact of globalization on the building human resource (bhr) among the 56 ...

Every silver lining has a cloud. The shift with development from food scarcity to food surplus is accompanied by rising obesity and all its associated health consequences. The steady reduction in mortality rates (until HIV/AIDS came along) has allowed people to live long enough to develop unpleasant chronic and degenerative diseases. And so with globalization, a process that has unquestionably ...

economic sanctions appear to be a common feature of political interactions between states. economic sanctions have become increasingly important as alternative to military conflict since the last decade of twentieth century. this paper provides, through a gravity model, an estimation of the impact of economic sanctions on bilateral trade flows between iran and its major trading partners during ...

Two decades after that shift in the economic model, however, Colombia lags behind other Latin American countries in its internationalization process in several dimensions (Table 2). The impact of globalization on Colombia has been uneven. It has been particularly high in areas like security and energy, and low in areas such as economic development, politics and social issues. THE IMPACT OF GLOB...

the world is considering the great change in sphere of globalization process in 21st century in which individuals living on earth are regarded as members of a mutual political entity. economic globalization is the most significant and conspicuous model of globalization. one of the most important issues in economic globalization process is the function of states in economic policymaking. the pre...