There is an urgent need to build Research and Development (R&D) capacity for leishmaniasis and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the Middle East and North Africa. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of 17 viral, bacterial, protozoan, and helminthic infections that often have high morbidity but low mortality, causing disabilities through their impact on child development and ed...

JEL Classification Code(s): J 31, J 71) "Perceptions of Discrimination, Effort to Obtain Psychological Balance, and Relative Wages: Can We Infer a Happiness Gradient?" There is a substantial literature that finds a linkage between happiness and relative economic well being as measured by earnings or wages. There is also a well documented racial gap in wages. One explanation for this is disparat...

In this paper, we describe how to solve Model A (finite number of countries complete markets) of the JEDC project by using a simulation-based Parameterized Expectations Algorithm (PEA). JEL classification : C6; C63; C68; C88

spatial environmental autocorrelation is a known phenomenon in the environmental studies explaining spatial relationship of environmental characteristics of different geographical units. different mechanisms have been proposed to clarify how the environments of especially neighboring countries response to changes of each other. this paper attempts to propose a new mechanism, namely spatial inst...

tourism industry has been the fastest and the most income-generating industry in the first decade of the third millennium. it has been for many countries including some of oic member countries a source of foreign exchange and contributed into their development. in this paper, we try to test empirically whether tourism expansion has had any significant effect on economic growth of oic member cou...

this paper investigates the impact of oil revenues on the output of economic sectors in some of oil exporting countries including iran, venezuela and mexico. we use cointegration analysis as well as short run and long run granger casualties' tests. the results show that in the long run, an oil boom leads to expansion of service sector, in these countries. also, the impacts of oil revenues ...

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionately higher burden of HIV infection than the general population. MSM in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are a largely hidden population because of a prevailing stigma towards this type of sexual behavior, thereby limiting the ability to assess infection transmission patterns among them. It is widely perceived that data are ...

In models with a capital spillover, the market outcome is not Pareto e cient since agents ignore the positive externalities caused by investment. One might conclude that taxes on investment or subsidies to consumption will reduce welfare. However in a model of endogenous growth, either a small tax on capital income, whose proceeds are wasted, increases growth and welfare or a small marginal sub...

This paper constructs a human-capital accumulation propelled endogenous growth model in which a home production sector is modeled explicitly. We con…rm …rst the basic equilibrium properties of a unique balanced-growth path, then conduct comparative statics and comparative dynamics exercises analytically. The implications of home production are explored in both the long and short runs, hence som...