Discussions on transit migration have for long focused presenting the experiences of migrants transiting through a given place at specific time in linear manner. Accordingly, most prior researches adopt snapshot approach to examine lived experience migrants. This paper argues that such an fails aptly capture gist complex nature and dynamics change trajectories. It emphasizes need diachronic exa...

Institutions are rules, guidelines, and regulations that regulate how agents participate in economic transactions, such as the purchasing selling of commodities services, well usage assets. They impact objectives major players society, influencing expenditures both tangible intellectual capital, technology, commodity. It also entails proper amounts tax collections, which critical for long prosp...

BACKGROUND In 2010 more than 7.7 million children died before their fifth birthday. Over 98% of these deaths occurred in developing countries, and recent estimates have attributed hundreds of thousands of these deaths to suboptimal breastfeeding. METHODS This study estimated prevalence of suboptimal breastfeeding for 137 developing countries from 1990 to 2010. These estimates were compared ag...

The importance of psychosocial factors in the management of bronchial asthma has long been recognized. This paper offers a review of research published in the English language related to psychosocial aspects of bronchial asthma in Arab countries. Several databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Springer Link, ERIC, and PsychInfo) were searched using the following keywords: bronchial asthma, Arab coun...

We have analyzed, using complementary molecular methods, the diversity of 43 strains of "Mycobacterium canettii" originating from the Republic of Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, from 1998 to 2003. Genotyping by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis shows that all the strains belong to a single but very distant group when compared to strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis com...

This descriptive-analytical study used data envelopment analysis to evaluated the technical efficiency (TE) of health systems in Member States of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region during 2004-2011. Life expectancy and infant mortality were used as outputs. Per capita total expenditure on health, and number of physicians, nurses and midwives and hospital beds per 1000 pe...

This paper analyses the relationship between Inflation Targeting and economic growth in 20 countries Middle East North Africa (MENA) region (Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Authority, Bahrain, Djibouti, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen), using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model over pe...