The relationship between financial development and economic growth is the crucial issues which could grab economists and policy makers' attention to it. Financial market plays an essential role on each economy, because it conducts funds to those individuals or firms which have productive investment opportunities. If the financial system does not perform this role efficiently, the economic effic...

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Process against a backdrop of widening and deepening of the European Union and the policies of the Union and the Communities has been the subject of study by the members of the EU-Med Transnational Regional Research Network, co-ordinated from Malta with Commission support, for the last five years. This is the fourth in a series of books published by the Networ...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form without permission of the author. 'Whereas previous environmental measures tended to be prescriptive in character with an emphasis on the 'thou shalt not' approach, the new strategy leans more towards a 'let's work together' approach.'

The NHS would not cope without its growing cohort of nurses from the European Union (EU), says the RCN.

To evaluate the road safety development of a country over time, the percentage change in the number of road fatalities is traditionally the main indicator. However, simply considering the reduction in the road fatalities may not correctly reflect the real improvement in road safety because the transport circumstances of a country underlying the road fatalities also change every year. In this st...

We consider the following hyperbolic system of PDEs which generalize the classical phase field equations with a non-conserved order parameter / and temperature u: u tt #e2/ tt #c 1 u t #e2c 1 / t "a*u, e2/ tt #c 2 e2/ t "e2*/#f (/)# eu for e@1. We present the model, derive a law for the evolution of the interface which generalizes the classical flow by mean curvature equation, and analyze the e...