following the collapse of ussr, the usa, as a key player of the middle east region, claimed the leadership of the world unipolar system and, during the last two decades has attempted to restructure the region. to this end, the us has tried to put into practice a plan under the name the new middle east, inorder to maintain its presence and dominance over this strategic region with the aim of sec...

from among the major problems of iran's present financial resources allocation system, one could refer to unclear relations between financial resources allocation policies and economic indicators as well as insufficient attention to the allocations according to projects priorities, absence of a controlled mechanism for allocation aimed for decreasing or eliminating deviations from the plan...

We estimate a Bayesian learning model in order to assess the value of health plan performance information and the extent to which the explicit provision of information about product quality alters consumer behavior. We make use of a source of variation in which health plan performance information for HMOs was released to employees of a Fortune 50 company for the first time. Our empirical work i...

"In order to provide an insight into the possible problems that face Saudi Arabia in its Fourth Five-Year Plan (1985-1990), this paper assesses several aspects of the manpower problems encountered in the Third Five-Year Plan (1980-1985). In general, it appears that the country's abundance of fixed capital, or at least the means to acquire it, only emphasizes the scarcity of other resources in ...

Harper’s plan has failed. Canadians have experienced year after year of broken promises, failure to make promised investments, and fights with provinces, territories, and municipalities – instead of the partnerships we need to move forward. Harper’s flagship New Building Canada Fund for infrastructure has been stalled by unclear criteria and cut by nearly 90 percent. He has also stopped investi...