First, we find that stock markets in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and Emerging Asia are sensitive to stock market activity of the G7 countries. However, the impact of the former on the G7 countries is much weaker at different time scales. In the same vein, the North America stock markets help to explain the evolution of returns in Latin America, Emerging Asia, the Far East...

Following the discovery of vast oil reserves in Persian Gulf region, Middle East became main hub for expansion and development western pipeline technology. Contrary to borderless world described some accounts globalization, what is observed after 1956 establishment hard political borders, directly under oversight national governments, deployment with minimal boundary crossings. In East, this pe...

The first session of the Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Ageing, the MEAMA, started with a focus on demographic aspects in the region and the problems the participants meet in their own countries related to the services for health related problems in older people. Also several medical topics were discussed. The MEAMA uses the methods of the EAMA, which have been proven to be attractive for ...

The increased prevalence of diabetes in Middle Eastern countries is a health policy priority. Important risk factors for diabetes have been identified. Lifestyle interventions and adherence to medications are central to disease prevention and management. This review focuses on the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Middle Eastern countries. The aim is to identify the ways in which knowle...

'Reproductive tourism' has been defined as the search for assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and human gametes (eggs, sperm, embryos) across national and international borders. This article conceptualizes reproductive tourism within 'global reproscapes,' which involve the circulation of actors, technologies, money, media, ideas, and human gametes, all moving in complicated manners across...