... changes
◾ Recognizing the e ort and exibility of government departments in supporting changing
policy objectives
◾ Measuring performance for government units involved in delivering integrated services
... practices of Southeast
Asia are varied, and this book brings together, in a single volume, an in- depth analysis of the core
components of public administration systems in selected countries of Southeast ... comparative knowledge
of public administration in these parts of Asia. Obviously, this book does not cover all countries
in Southeast Asia. As explained in the introduction, the selection re ects...
... Plains in the Madang Province
ã Sepik Plains oil palm project in East Sepik
ã Open Bay oil palm project in East New Britain
ã Amazon Bay integrated oil palm project in the Abau District in ... land, both in Indonesia and Malaysia, continues on a daily basis.
G.2 Land conflicts in Malaysia
Land rights conflicts in Malaysia are not as common as in Indonesia. Conflicts involving indigenous ... company will begin constructing roads, setting up a nursery and
removing any standing vegetation, including tropical rainforest, which generally brings about a
dramatic loss in local biodiversity....
... buyers into believing that they were purchasing a
simple savings plan, when in fact they were being sold a hybrid of savings and
insurance. In other cases, clients were insufficiently informed ... of savings, and may explain some of the
popularity of endowment savings (which incorporate life insurance into a savings
plan). In southern India research found that of all informal savings ... Bangladeshi mothers -in- law wise to recommend continuous sav-
ing to the next generation? Maybe, since in South Asia inflation has not been ram-
pant. Besides, inflation-caused losses in bank deposits,...
... tomato-infecting begomovirus species. To examine this we sought to
characterize the recombination events, estimate the frequency of recombination, and map
recombination hotspots in tomato-infecting ... decreased with increasing parental
sequence diversity. These findings provide valuable new information for understanding the diversity
and evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in Asia.
Background
Begomoviruses ... matrix.
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing inter-
ests.
Table 2: List of species/strains of tomato-infecting begomoviruses used in the present study.
Species/strain Genbank...
... Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Philippines Singapore
Share of Total Minutes Spent Online
Other
Retail
News/Information
Entertainment
Services
Social Networking
Internet Audience 15+ accessing Internet ... comScore, Inc. Proprietary.
18
(Lowest)
F
-to-
M
Reach
Index
Politics 78
Technology - News 78
Automotive 77
Gaming Information 76
Online Gambling 75
Sports 74
Online Trading ... visiting to
Multimedia sites in this
region
Local sites typically
dominate the Entertainment
News category
% Reach of Entertainment Subcategories
Internet Audience 15+ accessing Internet...
... tomato-infecting begomovirus species. To examine this we sought to
characterize the recombination events, estimate the frequency of recombination, and map
recombination hotspots in tomato-infecting ... decreased with increasing parental
sequence diversity. These findings provide valuable new information for understanding the diversity
and evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in Asia.
Background
Begomoviruses ... constructed using coat protein gene
sequences were all in good agreement with one another
indicating a relative absence of recombination break-
points within the CP gene.
We examined phylogeny...
... underlying shocks in the
economy, etc.
6
Using the data of twelve Asia Pacific countries, we find the following stylized facts of
business cycles. First, business cycles in the five Asian ... synchronization in the region. We examine
the following twelve countries in the Asia Pacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia,
Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand), China, Singapore, ... Regarding financial
activity, a substantial amount of the international capital (in the forms of foreign direct investment, equity
and bond financing and syndicated loans) financing China’s...
...
Half of these 600m livestock keepers live in
Asia
Also, many millions off-farm jobs created
along the supply chain (trading, processing,
retailing)
Between 4-17 off-farm jobs created ... 50
Livestock in a changing world
Genetics and breeding
Feed resources and Utilization
Human resource
International trading
20
Role of livestock
ã
Livestocks
critical role in
nutrition ... of rural households owning livestock,
by expenditure quintile. (FAO, 2009)
27
Global livestock population and production
(steinfeld et al., 2006)
46
Production of ruminant meat (1000 ton/year)
FAO...
... banking. While many prominent Filipinos have Chinese ances-
try, there is considerable hostility toward the Chinese dominance of
business.
Arab traders introduced Islam to the Philippines in ... Filipinos do not arrange themselves in neat lines.
Instead, they form a pushing, shoving crowd, with each person
out for him- or herself. e only times that Filipinos have queued
in neat lines ... president Ferdinand E. Marcos.
●
3
TIPS ON DOING BUSINESS IN THE PHILIPPINES
●
Titles are important to Filipinos—so important that many employees
are rewarded with impressive-sounding titles...
... state-owned)
ROA Earnings Net income/Total average assets
NINI_REV Earnings Net interest income/Total revenues (Total revenues
= Net interest income + Non interest income (before
deducting non interest costs))
LOANS_BORRO
WING
Liquidity ... 80% and 100%. In terms of number of nonbank financial institutions, our
coverage is 4.0% in Indonesia, 81% in Korea, 54.9% in Malaysia, 27.5% in Thailand and
5.3% in the Philippines. In terms of ... generation of financial early warning systems aimed to build screening
devices to help in scheduling bank examinations by flagging as early as possible those
institutions in (or approaching) financial...