... Public Administration inEast Asia: Common Roots, Ways, and Tasks ◾ 1.4.1 Individual/Group Consensus exists that Confucian philosophy is key in and distinctive of EastAsia This is not because Confucius ... as involving special districts, public authorities, schools, taxing districts, etc.; again, discuss any unique features in the administrative system (e.g., Japan has very few special districts) ... countries inEast and Southeast Asia (Japan, Thailand, Singapore, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao, etc.), always visiting people in our field at universities Frequent visits to Asia increased...
... this literature in several ways First, we investigate both the occurrence of distressed versus non-distressed financial institutions as well as the closure decisions for distressed financial institutions ... loan loss reserves in overall capitalization has a positive impact on distress This suggests that, as financial institutions made (albeit inadequate) provisions for loan-losses in response to ... also provides some insights on the causes of the East Asian financial crisis as well as on the appropriateness of policy responses during the evolution of the crisis As an additional insight, the...
... those that provide basic data for assessing the effects of acidification on terrestrial ecosystems, and they are further classified into sub-categories: survey sites and ecosystem analysis sites ... monitoring site Assessment of acid deposition impacts on whole ecosystem through application of terrestrial ecosystem analysis and/or catchment analysis Sensitive Areas to changes in atmospheric ... vegetation monitoring and Inland aquatic monitoring Basic survey site Ecosystem analysis site - Assessment of the state of acid deposition in rural areas and/or hinterlands Data can be used for the...
... perspective: Asian bonds share three common factors; Asian issuers, Asian investors and Asian - If regional bond markets are to be currencies Asian bonds are issued by created inEast Asia, would ... markets many as the main culprit of the Asian and clearing and settlement systems financial crisis In addition, Asian bond provide a cost-efficient way of cross markets provide Asian investors with ... regional investors, deeper capital market issue bonds on their own credit integration inEastAsia enhances the financial stability of the region Various financial schemes and products including securitization,...
... is not bound by seasons and is not in entire subjection to his environment is the cardinal distinction between him and the brutes This distinction was won through man 's possession of a thinking ... strain involved in leading the so-called simple life of the so-called savage is, on the whole, no less intense than that suffered by the civilised man in maintaining his civilised existence In ... continues in her breast towards the child after it has grown up is sustained by association, or, where the child is continually absent, by conscious intelligence in the form of considerations of...
... increase in trade linkages encourages greater specialisation of production, it will result in less synchronisation of business cycles In this case, industry compositions are shaped quite asymmetrically ... across countries In other words, better income insurance provided by risk sharing across countries enables each country to take more risk by specialising more in industries, which leads to less synchronisation ... GDP inEastAsia also shows a similar pattern: EastAsias share of GDP increased from 13.9 per cent in 1980 to 22.6 per cent in 2000, but rather decreased a little since then However, China s share...
... Ownership Structure and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings inEastAsia Joseph P H Fan T.J.Wong This paper was presented at the conference on Designing Financial Systems inEastAsia and ... to varying the starting and ending dates of the stock return window This analysis of East Asian corporations allows us to study the subject of earnings informativeness in a different ownership ... informativeness 2.1 Causes of concentrated ownership Dual-class shares are rare inEastAsia Among the seven economies that we investigate, only South Korea allows dual-class listings They are...
... changes in the distribution of assets, changes in the returns to those assets, and changes in how individuals and households choose to use their assets The next chapter contains a formal presentation ... Decomposing Changes in Inequality: An Introduction This study is certainly not the first one in which economists have tried to decompose changes in inequality in order to gain some insight into ... extremely useful in several circumstances, and they should still be used as a first step in explaining changes in distributions of some economic attributes Indeed, the Oaxaca-Blinder approach is still...
... inEastAsia during periods of crisis The East Asian crisis resulted in a loss of jobs and a decline in household income The most severely affected groups, however, are middle-income groups who ... from outside increased losses to the universities during the crisis period These courses were very expensive Since household incomes were falling, the enrolment in these courses declined The ... abroad sought admission in the Malaysian universities and this has led to an increase in enrolment in the national universities The case is similar inKorea This has increased enrolments in higher...
... is not bound by seasons and is not in entire subjection to his environment is the cardinal distinction between him and the brutes This distinction was won through man 's possession of a thinking ... strain involved in leading the so-called simple life of the so-called savage is, on the whole, no less intense than that suffered by the civilised man in maintaining his civilised existence In ... continues in her breast towards the child after it has grown up is sustained by association, or, where the child is continually absent, by conscious intelligence in the form of considerations of...
... evolu- Defining U .S Interests in Central Asia tion of the political situation in those countries, which remains uncertain This is not to say that the United States has been disinterested in Caspian ... “wish lists” for assistance activities and materials, as well as the procedures involved Some felt that there is often more interest in the “flash” the assistance provides than in its usefulness, ... this could happen again “Official: Defining U .S Interests in Central Asia 17 Turkmenistan is unique in providing access but showing little interest in building a relationship or accepting increased...
... published by Scotin in 1738, which I have not seen It is the 'Satyrus indicus' of the 'Systema Naturae', and is regarded by Linnaeus as possibly a distinct species from 'Satyrus sylvestris' The ... never stands on its hind legs, and all the pictures, representing it as so doing, are as false as the assertion that it defends itself with sticks, and the like The long arms are of especial use, ... never in the mountains It loves the densest and most sombre of the forests, which extend from the sea-shore inland, and thus is found only in the eastern half of Sumatra, where alone such forests...
... effects on Northeast Asia rise from less than 0.3% in all ASEAN+1 FTAs to 1.85% in ASEAN+3 and 1.93% in ASEAN+6 FTA The focus on sectoral trade and production of previous studies is found in some studies ... looks at key features of trading arrangements between ASEAN and its major trading partners Section reviews some theoretical arguments on FTAs and previous studies on East Asian FTAs Section describes ... 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 countries in the FTAs The income...
... one of the kindest and simplest of their poets in the restrained but expressive lines : Man s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn It is for such a being as this, they say, that God ... was everywhere crossed by black lines of various thicknesses, sometimes single, sometimes grouped Many observers studied them and made together accurate drawings or maps showing their positions ... lost, ; reeling brain essays in vain, stars, to grasp the vastness wide tremendous scheme That glimmers in each glancing ! terrible night, The O stars, too finite light, rudely jars with the infinite...
... amongst VCCI s political tasks In 1994, VCCI established a centre specializing in assisting SMEs Support services for SMEs focus mainly on training, marketing assistance, information provision ... documents Yes Yes Showing information in member s profile Yes Yes Sending purchase orders to targeted sellers Yes Yes Making inquiries to sellers about products offered for sale Yes Yes Using inquiry ... Namese provinces/ cities and eight business associations to assist enterprises in accessing e-commerce, by locality and industrial sub-sector Specifically: Establishing e-trade floors of provinces/associations...
... genotypes were tested by Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, or χ2 test using SPSS 12.0 system software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) We assessed association of rs585017 and rs4720262 with stratifications ... OA, osteoarthritis; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism Discussion In RHOB, the minor allele frequency inEast Asian individuals was below 0.05 and much lower than that in European Caucasians We ... detect a definite association with OA inEast Asian individuals A weak association was found in male Chinese when the patients were stratified by sex, but the association did not persist after correction...
... boars and their dispersal and domestication across Eurasia, as well as the Neolithic expansion in Island South EastAsia and Oceania However, because of the small sample size from EastAsia and ... in the sequence This fine-grained phylogeographic analysis of matrilineal components of wild boars and domestic pigs provided new insights into the origin and domestication of pigs inEastAsia ... remains from the Japanese mainland and islands suggested that Japanese domestic pigs were introduced from China [15,50,51] Based on the haplogroup classification system established in this study,...
... 1. Youth—Employment EastAsia Case studies. 2. Neoliberalism— EastAsia Case studies. 3. Globalization—Economic aspects EastAsia Case studies. 4. EastAsia Economic conditions—21st century. 5. Ethnology East ... a stabilizing power to the middle class in addressing such issues as social inequality, aspirational life ways, and civic discipline Although the middle class is still statistically small in size, ... thanks to the EastWest Center for its support and for including this volume in their series Contemporary Issues inAsia and the Pacific global futures ineastasia Introduction Life-Making in...
... permission in writing from the publisher mit Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use For information, please e-mail special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu ... investigated what I refer to as the “analyst cases.” The cases were about investment banking To understand them, all you need to know about investment bankÂ�ing is that the business has two sides: ... your customer Tell the truth about the stock Everyone understands that investors take risks, that analysts and investors sometimes get things wrong The problem is intentional deception That s what...
... major social policy issues facing East Asian governments and societies under the overarching influence of productivist thinking? Are East Asian welfare systems on a track leading toward sustainable ... housing estates, public housing living bears no social stigma All residents are served by the same services—schools, public transport, and shopping in the estates The routines of the residents, ... health insurance All East Asian societies try to combine these social policies in various formats and manifestations, fitting different histories of institutions and structures; but nonetheless the...