This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

This paper presents the state of e-commerce infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The state of e-commerce is comprised of factors not only technological, but also economic, social, commercial, legal, and regulatory. Based on the assessment of its current state, an attempt is made at projecting the future prospects for e-commerce in the GMS. E-commerce in the GMS countries is min...

in the present time, phenomenon like globalization, regionalism and economic integration are the basic issues which bring many positive consequences to the world economy. regionalism and economic integration are one of the ways that developing countries can adopt to collate the globalization process. to acknowledge their own abilities or, to settle the commercial and economic disputes in their ...

The paper outlines and compares two models of how globalization is likely to affect the risk of civil war – a liberal model and structuralist model. Overall, we find considerably more support for the liberal model than for the structuralist, anti-globalist model. Trade does appear to have a capacity for increasing internal peace – not directly, but via trade’s beneficial effects on growth and i...

globalization and social capital are two main concepts in modern sociology. the study of effects of women's social capital on their social participation is one of the critical areas in women's studies. in order to study women's social capital in globalization process, the writers selected 2200 women in the cities of tehran, shiraz and estahban in a random sense. the results show that cultural c...

In this article the authors consider the interplay between conflict and globalization, arguing that the interaction between globalization and conflict is complex. While much has been written on how globalization generates or accentuates conflict little has been written on how conflict and globalization interact to produce both positive and negative results.

sociologists have long been interested in the study of the relationships between members of families. also, in the last decades, sociologists and scholars in social and human sciences have shown an interest in the study of the effects of globalization on the micro and macro structures of societies. the aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between globalization and the division o...

'Suffering' is a central discursive trope for the right-to-die movement. In this article, we ask how proponents of physician-assisted dying (PAD) articulate suffering with the role of medicine at the end of life within the context of a decriminalization and legalization debate. We draw upon empirical data from our study of Carter v. Canada, the landmark court case that decriminalized PAD in Can...

abstract the purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis first proposed by romer (1993); suggesting that inflation is lower in more open economies. according to this hypothesis, central banks have a lower incentive to engineer surprise inflations in more-open economies because the phillips curve is steeper. furthermore, comparing with other empirical studies, this paper has used the new kof...