Language Challenges in Global and Regional Integration

Iran's Role In Energy Security At Regional And Global Levels

Iran’s Resistance Economy and Regional Integration

Iran’s ‘resistance economy’ is sometimes presented as defensive strategy. Despite Washington’s ‘New Middle East’ wars and the rapid evaporation of expected benefits from the long JCPOA (nuclear deal) process, a certain illusion remains that a general ‘normalisation’ with the outside powers might still bring economic benefits to the country. Nevertheless, it remains true that, while Iran is a la...

A Global Disease with Regional Challenges

Leishmaniasis is a complex disease caused by more than 20 species of the Leishmania parasite, with over a million new cases occurring every year.(1) It breaks out in foci across tropical and temperate regions around the world, in areas where the sandfly, responsible for its transmission, lives. In anthroponotic leishmaniasis (transmission between humans by the sandfly) humans are the only reser...

Measuring Global and Regional Trade Integration in Terms of Concentration

I apply concentration measures from the inequality literature the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient to the measurement of global and regional integration, and show that these can be derived from the theoretical gravity model in the presence of unequal costs of access for firms from different locations to a particular market. Overall, comparing 9 economies, I find that the USA is the most global...

Unsafe abortion: global and regional incidence, trends, consequences, and challenges.

OBJECTIVE This review aims to provide the latest global and regional estimates of the incidence and trends in induced abortion, both safe and unsafe. A related objective is to document maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion. The legal context of abortion and the international discourse on preventing unsafe abortion are reviewed to highlight policy implications and challenges in preventing un...