India's foreign policy has changed over the past two decades. From the time of independence in 1947-191, the bipolar structure of the international system formed the overcoming of the consensus of Neo-Rumi on foreign policy, the sub-continent's geopolitics, and the colonial heritage as a set of factors of Indian foreign policy. In the early years after independence, Jawahar Lal Nehru, the count...

This paper tries to survey Irans regional labor market disequilibrium within 1996-2000. According to the results there has been an increase in the amount of disequilibrium of Irans national as well as regional labor markets. Incomplete labor market information on vacant job opportunities in different regions of the country along with high costs of migration have been the major causes of unemplo...

in one pole of the continuum of language learning, theoreticians and practitioners traditionally consider english as english as a second language or english as a foreign language. however, in the other pole of this continuum where english is thought of as the most effective tool for international communication, it is referred to as a lingua franca. those who favor an approach to english growing...

This paper tries to express the investment behavior of Irans economic sectors during 1959-2001 by means of proposing an econometric model. The results of the model are offered in two options: present status continuation and desirable status. The first option reveals that the continuation of the present trends in Iran will lead to the economic growth of 3.9 percent and total investment growth of...

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...