... data and latest projectionsDifference from April 2012 WEO 1 Emerging Asia includes East Asia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Asia andPacific ... (on a value-added basis) are linked to demand from Europe and the United States alone (see April 2012 Asia andPacificRegional Economic Outlook). Therefore, trade-channel effects, including ... of August 2012 except for Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam (September 2012) and Australia and New Zealand (June 2012, quarterly data). Wholesale price index used for India.TaiwanProvince...
... Africa, 24 from East Asiaand the Pacific region, 26 economies from Europe and Central Asia, 22 from Latin America, 16 from the Middle East and North Africa, and eight from South Asia. The sample ... Benchmarking Business Regulations in 155 Countries East AsiaandPacific Region Regional Profile Benchmarking—Entry Regulation East AsiaandPacific Region—Compared to Global Best / Selected ... procedures it takes to enforce a contract, the longer the delays and the higher the cost. Less wealth is created. 28 Benchmarking – Credit Information Indicators East AsiaandPacific Region...
... for achieving MDG 4, the Regional Office for the Western Pacific in collaboration with the UNICEF East AsiaandPacificRegional Office has developed a joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival ... academic community and professional associations as influential partners in child survival for advocacy and leadership, and to inform national strategic direction, policies, educationand research. ... mother and child count. WHO 2005 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL REGIONAL...
... development and per capita income in Asiaand the Pacific ………………… 10 Figure 6: The relationship between credit market based measure of financial development and poverty rates in Asiaand the Pacific ……………………… ... households and small and micro-enterprises is a key priority for countries in Asiaand the Pacific. For this to occur, policy-makers must encourage both the development of the financial system and ... Flows and Financial Instability in Emerging Asia by Ramkishen S. Rajan Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (MPDD) Economic and Social Commission forAsiaand the Pacific...
... Population (million)Non-AsiaAsiaNote: Extrapolation and interpolation were used to estimate urbanization level and corresponding starting years for Latin America and the Caribbean and Northern America.Sources: ... No. FLS124810-3Cataloging-In-Publication DataAsian Development Bank. Key Indicators forAsiaand the Pacific 2012.Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 2012.1. economic indicators ... regional members of ADB, both developing and developed. Indicators are shown for the most recent year or period for which data are available and, in most tables, for an earlier...
... aerospace forces. Research isperformed in four programs: Aerospace Force Development;Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and Doctrine.Additional information ... difficult for most regional competitors. Distances and, therefore, missileflight times—are too short to allow the sort of survivable postures for land-based nuclear systems that the United States and ... the Strategy and Doctrine Program. Theproject leader was Dr. Glenn Buchan.PROJECT AIR FORCEProject AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of RAND, is the Air Force feder-ally funded research and development...
... the demand for G3 currencies. It will also encourage greater specialization and expand the scope for intra-industry trade in differentiated products. Domestic demand expansion and intra -regional ... institutions and instruments, massive deleveraging, crashing equity prices, and frozen credit markets reversed credit and investment flows to Asia, wounded Asian stock prices and exchange rates, and ... Global Financial and Economic Crisis for East Asian Leaders. Asian Policy Forum, Tokyo.Bhaskaran, M. 2009. Implications of the Global Economic Downturn on Asia. Centennial Asia Advisor Pte...
... services for older persons in Asiaand the Pacific. I. Key gaps and challenges The Forum identified the following gaps and challenges facing elderly care services in Asia and the Pacific: ... challenge. Enhancing Elderly Care Services in Asiaand the Pacific Outcome Document of the Regional Forum on Elderly Care Services in Asiaand the Pacific 21-22 January 2011, Nanjing, China ... medicines and technology for older persons. Governments should integrate knowledge on ageing into formal education (including primary and secondary schools) curricula, non-formal education...
... between Asia in the mid-1990s andAsia in the 2000s, but also between eastern Europe and Latin America, on the one hand, andAsia now. Compared to emerging Europe and Latin America, in Asia the foreign ... developments in other forms (eg indirect cross-border). 8 Borio and Lowe (2002) and Borio and Drehman (2009) examine credit-to-GDP ratios for a large sample of countries and show that the ... Cardarelli, Kostas Tsatsaronis and conference participants for useful comments and discussion and Bilyana Bogdanova, Pablo Garcia, Jimmy Shek and Jhuvesh Sobrun for research assistance. 2 Authors...
... Malaysia to Brazil and New Zealand for joint research and filling in research information gaps.The pest risk analysis on SALB was adopted by the 25th session of the AsiaandPacific Plant ProtectionCommission ... Agreement for the AsiaandPacific region (APPPC) was revised between 1997 and 1999 to update and align the Agreement with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC 1997) and the WTO ... development and adoption of Regional Standards, including the development of pest risk analyses, and the identification of pests for common action and recognition of pest free areas and areas of...
... manacapi@rand.org.RAND Project AIR FORCERAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation,is the U.S. Air Force’s federally funded research and developmentcenter for studies and ... by Type and Level 22AETC Management Information Needs and Flows 23Cost Information Data Needs and Flows 23Capacity Information Data Needs and Flows 26Quantity Information Data Needs and Flows ... Aerospace Force Development; Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Resource Management; and Strategy and Doctrine.Additional information about PAF is available on our Web site athttp://rand.org/paf.ixFIGURES1.1....
... in Japan and one in each of Israel and Russia.11 Leading European nations areGermany (six), France and Sweden (four each) and Switzerland (three) and the Netherlands(two). China and India ... in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil (Drache and Froese, 2005, pp. 7-8 and 24). In film, in both China and India thesize and scope of the domestic market provides the platform for a future global ... venue for capacity expansion and a significant export earner in its ownright. Singapore aims to be a “global hub” foreducationand is using supervised foreignpartnerships both to import educational...