Knowledge Economy Determinants in GCC Countries

The Knowledge-based Economy in Transition Countries

Medical education research in GCC countries

BACKGROUND Medical education is an essential domain to produce physicians with high standards of medical knowledge, skills and professionalism in medical practice. This study aimed to investigate the research progress and prospects of GCC countries in medical education during the period 1996-2013. METHODS In this study, the research papers published in various global scientific journals durin...

Digital Bridges: Developing Countries in the Knowledge Economy

From a village in rural Ghana, Dr. John Afele has studied in Belgium, Japan and Canada. He has traveled further on development missions and for conferences, for instance as a Board member of Global Knowledge for Development. Serving as a North-South bridge person in worldwide knowledge networks through the Internet also qualifies him for the book’s theme. His focus is on innovative ways to brid...

Determinants of Inflation in Selected Countries

This paper focuses on developing models to study influential factors on the inflation rate for a panel of available countries in the World Bank data base during 2008-2012‎. ‎For this purpose‎, Random effect log-linear and Ordinal logistic models are used for the analysis of continuous and categorical inflation rate variables‎. ‎As the original inflation rate response to variables shows an appar...

Variance Analysis of GDP for GCC Countries

GDP (Gross domestic product) and per capita GDP data of six GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries were collected and analysed by randomized complete bock design and pair-wise multiple comparison. It is observed that GDP of Saudi Arabia is significantly higher than that of all other GCC countries. The GDP of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait are similar. The GDP of UAE is significantly higher t...