To reduce the health security risk and impact of outbreaks around the world, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its partners are building capabilities to prevent, detect, and contain outbreaks in 49 global health security priority countries. We examine the extent of economic vulnerability to the US export economy posed by trade disruptions in these 49 countries. Using 2015 US...

WASHINGTON (AP) Iranian oil exports apparently w ere choked off yesterday by a shutdown of the country’s only crude oil port. A U.S. official said the shutdown may have stem m ed from a strike by port workers. Initial reports came to adm inistration and congressional sources from the CIA. The reported shutdown at Iran ’s K harg Island came as the United States sought to negotiate the release of...

We examine the effect of oil price fluctuations on democratic institutions over the 1960-2007 period. We also exploit the very persistent response of income to oil price fluctuations to study the effect of persistent (oil price-driven) income shocks on democracy. Our results indicate that countries with greater net oil exports over GDP see improvements in democratic institutions following uptur...

Increase in the exchange rate may not always promote export of non-oil production and exports of various goods; rather they might have different reactions to the exchange rate. Hence, in this study we tried to examine the effect of real effective exchange rate on Iranian pistachio export. The required data were collected from statistical yearbook of Iran's foreign trade, statistical yearbook of...

abstract: iran is considered number one producer of pomegranate throughout the world. the oil extracted from pomegranate seed is considered to have great medical and nutritional values, therefore the study is concerned with this unique and valuable oil specially its chemical attributes. five different varieties of pomegranate were obtained from saveh pomegranate research institute. the seeds we...

The aim of the study is to examine whether there a Dutch disease symptom by revealing short-term and long-term effects oil prices production on non-oil exports in oil-rich Azerbaijan. In this context, ARDL bounds test FMOLS method was applied considering price, real GDP export variables covering period 2001Q1 2019Q4. results analysis determine that cointegration relationship between variables. ...