Defining business cycles as fluctuations of the period of the cycle of less than eight years, the author explores the business cycles of the USA and seven East Asian economies, i.e. Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. International co-movements in GDP...

A shortage of medical personnel has become a critical problem for developing countries attempting to expand the provision of medical services for the poor. In order to highlight the driving forces determining the international allocation of medical personnel, the cases of four countries, namely...