I combine household surveys, national accounts and unique personal income tax records to produce the first estimates of distribution in an Arab country, Lebanon. find that is extremely concentrated over 2005–2014 period: The top 1 10 percent adult population received almost 25 55 on average, placing Lebanon among countries with highest levels inequality world. These results challenge a long las...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND We recently proposed that Lebanon could become a regional 'academic hub' through the repatriation of emigrated Lebanese physicians who would then provide clinical services in the Arab Gulf region on a locum tenens basis. The objectives of this study were to assess the willingness of Lebanese medical graduates practicing in the United States of America to relocate to Leb...

AIM To explore the distribution and polymorphisms of 23 short tandem repeat (STR) loci on the Y chromosome in the Turkish population recently settled in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and to investigate its genetic relationships with the homeland Turkish population and neighboring populations. METHODS This study included 100 healthy unrelated male individuals from the Turkish population liv...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to draw growth curves and assess obesity prevalence in adolescents of public schools, and to explore selected food consumption frequency and physical activity. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Lebanese public schools. From the list of schools provided by the Ministry of Education, a random sample of 20 schools was chosen, distributed in all Lebanese...

Four Turkish provenances and five Lebanese provenances of Cedrus libani A. Rich. and one Cypriot provenance of C. brevifolia Henry were compared during the third year of growth in a controlled-climate greenhouse after exposure to a well-watered or moderate-drought treatment. Effects of treatment on CO(2) assimilation (A), stomatal conductance (g(s)), (13)C isotope composition (delta(13)C), grow...