Since the 1990s economists have devoted considerable attention to the study of the relationship between financial markets development and economic growth. In particular, the emergence of stock markets with economic development is an intriguing and interesting aspect of such a relationship, and yet relatively unexplored. This paper examines the most recent findings in the theoretical and empiric...

Globalization is a pervasive influence on industrialization in the developing world. As the embodiment of technological progress and more open markets, it offers huge productive benefits to developing countries. However, its effects are very uneven. It is driving a growing wedge between the (relatively few) successful countries and the (large mass of) others. The wedge is not a temporary one, a...

background there is limited data on the natural history of autoimmune hepatitis (aih) and on the long-term follow-up of aih patients who have been referred for regular medical attention. objectives we evaluated the clinical presentation and natural history of aih in a large cohort of type i aih patients from iran. patients and methods between 1997 and 2008, 102 patients were enrolled in the stu...