GDP, a measure of economic welfare, may be supplemented with other measures of economic welfare and environmental sustainability. This article discusses alternative measures which have been proposed in the literature concerning pollution, which can be used to augment GDP as a measure of welfare to produce a better index.

Several scholars have linked the growth of transnational Arab TV in the Middle East over the past decade to a rise in transnational Muslim and Arab political identification at the expense of national political identity. However, a theoretical context for understanding how media exposure may influence political identification in the Middle East at an individual level of analysis has been lacking...

For the third time in a decade, solar energy pricing records are tumbling Persian Gulf. As each previous wave of new was met with incredulity, only for these prices to become normal around world within few years, it would be unwise once again dismiss low as unrepresentative outliers. In this study, we show how local conditions and global macroeconomic factors have conspired bring into regime ex...

There is a range of evidence that informs us about the organisation of the Achaemenid Empire, but our understanding ofthe eastern-most reaches of the empire, which lie within the bounds of modern-day Pakistan is relatively limited. Whilethere is evidence for the eastern provinces in imperial art and references to them in Achaemenid Royal inscriptions, thearchaeological record in the subcontinen...

The ongoing Syrian Civil War is one of the most arresting issues in international area 21st century. This article examines it on Kenneth Waltz’s levels analysis: individual, state and level. author argues that case this Middle Eastern symbolizes struggle for influence contemporary relations, during which decline US hegemony rise multipolar world are observable. also proves global security syste...

BACKGROUND Since the early 2000s, there have been large increases in donor financing of human resources for health (HRH), yet few studies have examined their effects on health systems. OBJECTIVE To determine the scope and impact of investments in HRH by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), the largest investor in HRH outside national governments. METHODS We...