the south ossetia crisis leading to military hostilities between russia and georgia has turned into one of the complicated crises in the caucasus and at the world level since the disintegration of the soviet :union:. this crisis should be considered as the harbinger of a new stage in the international relations arena in the transition from the cold war era. hence, it can be suggested that the c...

In this paper we study the nature of regional inter-dependence among selected Asian stock markets and contrast it with that among selected European markets before and during the Asian crisis. We ask if the Asian crisis marked any fundamental change in the basic nature of these relationships. Using daily dollar-denominated returns data from eight East Asian and eight European stock markets, we s...

Abstract We perform, to our best knowledge, the first systematic mapping of foundational economy (FE) at sub-national level by looking FE employment in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2016. show that itself not only suffered less than traded activities from decline during Great Recession 2007–2009 but was also a domain substantial job creation post-crisis recovery. At same time, with higher de...

This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America over the period from 1970 to 2000. We find that the difference in growth performance between two regions are largely attributed to the differences in fundamental growth factors such as investment rate, human resources, fertility, institutional quality, macroeconomic stabilit...

BACKGROUND Spain's financial crisis has been characterized by an increase in unemployment. This increase could have produced an increase in deaths of women due to intimate partner-related femicides (IPF). This study aims to determine whether the increase in unemployment among both sexes in different regions in Spain is related to an increase in the rates of IPF during the current financial cris...

Objective: A study of primary cancer morbidity among children and subsequent calculation of average annual incidence were carried out for boys and girls, and young men and women in Kazakhstan. Methods: The investigated population lived in three areas of the Aral Sea region: designated catastrophe (Aral, Kazalt, Shalkar regions), crisis (Zhalagash, Karmakshy, Shiely regions), pre-crisis (Irgiz, ...

This paper examines Generalised Purchasing Power Parity (G-PPP) across three regions whose constituent countries are closely linked economically and have been affected by a financial crisis. G-PPP is particularly appropriate when interdependence is high and this is examined using the Johansen multivariate cointegration procedure. The extent of convergence towards G-PPP is assessed in the preand...