This paper critically evaluates different models of economic progress and development using concepts based on the idea of the ‘political economy’. It explores the influence of globalization on these different models and explores the nexus between the International Financial Institutions, trade bodies, and agreements that continuously exert economic pressure on governments. This paper also attem...

Human obesity is a complex phenomenon where economic, cultural, behavioral, and biological factors intersect in the physiological space. Developing animal models that capture several elements of the many potential interactions between these factors will only increase their translational value.

The important of the demographic dividend to East Asian economic growth is now widely recognized. During the last four decades of the 20 Century the working age populations grew much more rapidly than the dependent populations fueling growth in per capita income. Over the coming decades, however, demographic change is seemingly unfavorable. In the coming decades the working-age populations of m...

In earlier debates on economic development, the agricultural sector’s role was somewhat controversial. While dualistic models highlighted the importance of agriculture, the mainstream literature placed a greater emphasis on the creation of a modern industrial sector. Soon agriculture disappeared from the mainstream development literature to re-emerge recently with a variety of multiple-sector g...

cancer patients are more susceptible to adverse drug-drug interactions (ddis) due to receiving multiple medications especially chemotherapy medications, hormonal agents and supportive care drugs. the aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of potential ddis and to identify risk factors for these potential interactions in hospitalized cancer patients in a developing country.a cross-secti...