Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine agricultural trade competitiveness EU candidate countries (CCs) and Eastern Partnership (EPCs) compared Polish agriculture, based on available 1992–2017 EUROSTAT FAOSTAT data. Design/Methodology/Approach: This uses selected indicators competitiveness. Findings: study attempts tell which the covered are in a position become competitive European Un...

Purpose: The current investigation examines the uniqueness of determinants that drives students flow to developing countries study abroad. also compares these with factors influencing student mobility toward developed world. theoretical framework: Various theories and models such as new migration theory, liberalisation & competition, push pull factor model are taken backdrop for econometric...

The herbicide paraquat is considered safe by industry and the bulk of regulators worldwide. However, determinants of exposure from 30 years ago persist in developing countries. Little is known about systemic absorption from occupational exposures. The relationships between exposure determinants, levels of external exposure, biomarkers of exposure, and outcomes are not clear. High rates of sever...

In this paper we use a representative consumer model to analyse the equilibrium relation between the transitory deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for both stock returns and housing returns. The evidence based on data for 15 OECD countries shows that when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, the...

Factors determining the diffusion of digital mobile telephony across 200 developed and developing countries in the 1990s are studied with the aid of a Gompertz model. The market size and network effects are found to play more important roles in the developing countries; there is also more need for complementing innovations in, for example, financial and payment systems. Even though the developi...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently projected that in 2010, cancer would overtake ischemic heart disease as the leading cause of death in the world. Between 2005 – when some 7.6 million people died from cancer, accounting for 13% of global deaths – and 2015, it is anticipated that 84 million people will die of cancer. In 2008, approximately 72% of cancer deaths occurred in low and midd...

Despite the increasing importance of the Internet, there is little work that addresses the degree to which the models and theories of Internet diffusion in developed countries can be applied to Internet diffusion in developing countries. This paper presents the first attempt to address this issue through theory driven modeling of Internet diffusion. Consistent with previous research, our findin...

This book concerns capital flight in developing countries: How big is it? What causes it? How are we to interpret it? What are its effects? What can be done about it? The core of the book consists of seven case studies of capital flight from developing countries Turkey and a set of Middle Eastern and North African countries) connected by a common methodology used to estimate capital flight. The...

Do rich and poor countries export the same goods to the US? Using highly disaggregate trade flow data – which breaks US imports into thousands rather than tens of goods – this paper documents two significant trends. First, the number of US imports originating in either rich or poor countries exclusively has fallen dramatically as the world has globalized, from 50% in 1972 to 25% in 1994. This g...

Globally obesity has reached to epidemic proportions, and the people of the Gulf countries have also affected, especially high-income, oil-producing countries. The prevalence of obesity in Gulf Countries among children and adolescents ranges from 5% to 14% in males and from 3% to 18% in females. In adult females there is a significant increase of obesity with a prevalence of 2%-55% and in adult...