... 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,...
... saving is through small investments in land, housing, livestock, working tools, small business, etc. A key motive for saving through in- kind investment rather than saving in cash lies in the ... Equidad in Colombia Developing Old Age Security for Low-Income People in Africa 275 While in- kind investments can bring better returns than cash savings, these ap-proaches often fail – investments ... produce income later. In simple terms, the common trends in investment may be categorised as: ã Those with small savings commonly invest in small-scale farming – growing crops and rearing animals....
... persons insured by Micro Health Insurance Units in the Philippines.” International Journal of Public Administration. Forthcoming “Global Development Finance, 2005.” The World Bank, Washington ... any surplus from interest collections remaining in the SPV after covering the senior expenses and paying out interest to investors. For example, excess spread can be held in a reserve account ... Tilman Ehrbeck: “Optimising Capital Supply in Support of Microfinance Industry Growth”, a McKinsey & Co. presentation to the Microfinance Investor Roundtable in Washington DC on 24-25 October...
... decreased with increasing parentalsequence diversity. These findings provide valuable new information for understanding the diversityand evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in Asia. BackgroundBegomoviruses ... detected as recombinants in the break-point analysis exhibited deviations in their branchingorder indicating that they were most likely correctly iden-tified as recombinants. In addition, the ... tomato-infecting begomovirus species. To examine this we sought tocharacterize the recombination events, estimate the frequency of recombination, and maprecombination hotspots in tomato-infecting...
... Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Philippines SingaporeShare of Total Minutes Spent Online OtherRetailNews/InformationEntertainmentServicesSocial NetworkingInternet 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...
... decreased with increasing parentalsequence diversity. These findings provide valuable new information for understanding the diversityand evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses in Asia. BackgroundBegomoviruses ... tomato-infecting begomovirus species. To examine this we sought tocharacterize the recombination events, estimate the frequency of recombination, and maprecombination hotspots in tomato-infecting ... constructed using coat protein genesequences were all in good agreement with one anotherindicating 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, ... those in the East Asian countries. Second, business cycles in the five Asian crisis countries are highly synchronized and follow business cycles in Japan. Third, the countries in Greater China,...
... 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 ... 50Livestock in a changing world Genetics and breeding Feed resources and Utilization Human resource International trading 20Role of livestockãLivestocks critical role in nutrition ... of rural households owning livestock, by expenditure quintile. (FAO, 2009) 27Global livestock population and production (steinfeld et al., 2006) 46Production of ruminant meat (1000 ton/year)FAO...