... following pages present the summary Doing Business indicators for the EastAsiaand Pacific Region. Further information is available in the full report Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, ... Africa, 24 from EastAsiaand the Pacific region, 26 economies from Europe and Central Asia, 22 from Latin America, 16 from the Middle Eastand North Africa, and eight from South Asia. The sample ... database and included in this country profile are: Starting a Business: Entry Regulation Dealing with Licenses: Building a Warehouse Hiring and Firing Workers: Employment Regulation Registering...
... the change in within-group inequality, IW, and the change in between-group inequality, IB. In turn, both changes may be expressedas linear combinations of changes in within-group inequality ... decompositionamong groups at a point in time than in that of the change in inequal-ity between two points in time. Differentiating equation 2.3, it followsthat the change in overall inequality, I, may ... Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce (1993) use a techniqueof this kind to study the determinants of the increase in wageinequality in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. Blau and Khan (1996)...
... and poor in Sri Lanka and Thailand are similar, suggesting that attaining near universal coverage may be critical in reducing socioeconomic inequities for this indicator. The inequities in ... birthweight infants (ranging from 9% in Thailand to 30% in India) and underweight children (ranging from 9% in Thailand to 48% in Bangladesh). The prevalence of moderate-to-severe stunting ranges ... functionsThese include coordination, monitoring and reporting on issues related to women and children.Collaboration and NCWC inputsWork started with sensitizing and creating awareness...
... PressPrinted in Singapore1 2 3 4 5 SLP 05 04 03 02ISBN 981-243-388-0ivCengage Learning,Cengage Learninghttp://www.cengagelearningasia.cominfo@cengagelearningCengageCengage Cengage Learning ... of protein and fat in peasants. In a rather gruesome tone, he relates anecdotesof peasants in overcrowded conditions gaining a little more proteinby cracking each others lice between their teeth.Termite ... Limdescribed it as tasteless. One Singaporean eats them for aches and pains in his legs. In a bizarre incident the buyer of a flat found itinfested with mealworms, and there having been some disputeover...
... provide income effects of ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3 and ASEN+6 for almost all single economies inEastAsia found that the gain for member countries increase with number of countriesin the FTAs. The income ... Paper No. 74. Urata, S. and K. Kiyota (2005) “Impacts of an East Asian FTA on Foreign Trade inEast Asia. ” In: T. Ito and A. Rose (eds.), International Trade inEast Asia. Chicago: University ... ASEAN. Adding three East Asian countries (China, Japan and Korea), intra-regional trade increases to more than 50%. In 2008, ASEAN+3 countries accounted for 53.2% of ASEAN exports and 56.6%...
... vigour in forest clearing Opium Poppy Cultivation in South EastAsia 2007 11Opium abuse In South East Asia, opium addiction is mainly found in places where opium poppy is cultivated. Since ... in South EastAsia 2007 17Remaining opium addiction in Wa region Impact on ex-opium poppy farmers In the past, the primary difference between opium poppy growing and non-growing farmers in ... > 20%). 4 Based on 8 northern provinces in 2005, 6 in 2006 and 10 in 2007. Opium Poppy Cultivation in South EastAsia 2007 152 COPING WITH CHANGE IN THE WA REGION: A CASE STUDY FROM MYANMAR...
... saw their incomes increase by 22 percent in Thailand and 10 percent in the Philippines. Incomes increased in the rural areas in particular. In the Philippines, rural incomes grew by nine percent ... Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth inEast Asia, October 2011, World Bank, Washington DC.28 See Productivity and Innovation inEastAsiaand Pacific: A Stocktaking, ... lending funds5/ Treasury bill rateNAVIGATING TURBULENCE, SUSTAINING GROWTHCOUNTRY PAGES AND KEY INDICATORS 57 Box 3� What kind of landing for China?As the industrialized countries fear dipping...
... Nations, 2000). In industrialized countries, the increase in the older population has occurred gradually.However in developing countries, inEast Asia, South -East Asiaand Latin America, thedemographic ... status in someSEAR countries, and includes the numbers of divorced and separated people in India and Myanmar (Table 42).Living arrangements are often the determining factors related to health. Since ... Regarding smoking and drinking, data from the health status among the Thai population in 1995 showed that the proportion of smokers and drinkers decreased with age. The decliningrate of smoking...
... planning and design. BM carried out the acquisition, analysis and inter-pretation of data. BM drafted the manuscript. GN and SAhave been involved in revising it critically for importantintellectual ... consistency(0.50–0.70) than in comparisons between individualscores. Furthermore, two of the scales (MH and GH) areincluded in the summary measures PsS and PhS, whichare used in the main part of the analyses.ConclusionThe ... may findit difficult to reduce the risk of inconvenience and to mit-igate the child's pain, and this may account for the associ-ation between a child's gastro-intestinal symptoms and deterioration...
... Urbanization inAsiaand the Near East : trends and projections of urban growth and population density in three cities and assessment of urban poverty and size of urban poor populations within urbanization ... both urban and poverty trends increasing.72 The number of people living in urban slums is expected to double within the next 25 years, and by 2025, 6 out of 10 children in developing countries ... health, population, and nutrition officers; and regional urban development office personnel. Guiding Principles and Methodology During the planning and design stage, USAID and EHP jointly decided...