This article forms part of a six-part Series on trade and health, and sets the stage for this Series by analysing key aspects of the relationship between trade and health. The Series takes stock of this relation and provides timely analysis of the key challenges facing efforts to achieve an appropriate balance between trade and health across a diverse range of issues. This introductory article ...

Within the framework of an n-commodity, n-factor, K-country loglinear model with identical Cobb–Douglas production coefficients and identical consumer-expenditure shares across countries, balanced trade, and a pattern of world endowments permitting positive outputs of all commodities in each country, it is shown that, given any mode of aggregating the n commodities into at most n − 1 industrial...

Recent world trade statistics emphasise rapid globalisation of commercial services (CS) and underpin the criticality of a country’s positioning strategy in the growing world CS market. Drawing on trade statistics of 77 countries, this paper assesses configurations and composes a matrix of CS internationalisation as a framework to classify and map countries in the world CS market. Overall the st...

The trade-off between exploration of new ideas and exploitation of certainties create a need for managing a balance between those two concepts within organizations. To align with an associated strategy, we suggest an IT architecture with an embedded mechanism to manage this balance when trying new approaches. A prototype and evaluation with encouraging results show the viability of the proposed...

We perform an information-theoretical analysis of quantum measurement processes and obtain the global information balance in quantum measurements, in the form of a closed chain equation for quantum mutual entropies. Our balance provides a tight and general entropic information-disturbance trade-off, and explains the physical mechanism underlying it. Finally, the single-outcome case, that is, th...

The US dollar is the most prevalent currency to settle internationally traded merchandise. A few existing studies demonstrate that can significantly impact a country’s trade balance with non-US partner. Nevertheless, current literature indicates remarkable deficiency of empirical results for case India despite vital importance in its international trade. Recognizing European Union (EU) as large...