OBJECTIVE To determine relative trends in prevalence for overweight for adults compared with children across high-income countries (Australia, United Kingdom, and United States), middle-income countries (Brazil and Russia), and low-income countries (China and Indonesia). RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Extant nationally representative survey data from 1971 to the present are used. Prevalence ...

Abstract Allies in 1950, at odds 1960, war 1969, on opposite sides of the Cold War during 1980s, Russians and Chinese have worked out their border issues recent years to partner against a common challenge: United States. While it can be argued that both countries distrust one another, Moscow Beijing share concern can’t afford bad relations. Both abhor US-Western interventions last two decades v...

T his paper is an attempt investigating the relationship between sanctions implications and geographical shift in trading partners. To this end, we analyze separately foreign trade patterns of two countries namely Iran and Russia - which are under imposed sanctions experience - with two United Nations Regional Groups (The Asia-Pacific and the Western European groups)  using a gravity...