... the Middle East: A Compendiumof Estimates 673.2. Budgetary Deficit as a Percentage of GDP 1125.1. Heads of State of Selected Middle Eastern Countries 164 Political Reform in the MiddleEast ... (ed.), Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume 1, Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1995, p. 7. 80 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East of oil revenues and mounting losses of public-sector ... Democrats? The Case of Jordan,” MiddleEast Journal, Vol. 51,No. 3, 1997, pp. 373–387. 32 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East obtain and renew official licenses, and often provides financialsubsidies...
... Regulations in 155 Countries East Asiaand Pacific Region Regional Profile Benchmarking—Entry Regulation East Asiaand Pacific Region—Compared to Global Best / Selected Other Countries Cost ... 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 covers every economy with ... ChinaSingaporeNorway*0Least Cost - Global *Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait. 35 Closing a Business: Bankruptcy East Asiaand Pacific Region ...
... 20062912Original ArticleTRADE and FINANCIAL INTEGRATION IN EAST ASIAKWANHO SHIN and CHAN-HYUN SOHN Trade and Financial Integration in East Asia: Effects on Co-movements Kwanho Shin 1 and Chan-Hyun ... on a regional level. Park and Bae (2002) and Eichengreen and Park (2005b)pioneered this issue and found that EastAsia has developed stronger financialties with the US and Western Europe than ... consumption and price movements,∆ ln(Cit) − ∆ ln(Cjt) and ∆ ln(Pit) − ∆ ln(Pjt), between countries i and j, and compute the co-movement measures of consumption and price:8See Lee and Shin...
... structure and earnings informativeness. 3.1. Sample and data We select our sample firms from seven East Asian economies Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. ... divergence. In East Asia, the mean CV ratio is 0.85. The mean CV ratios are rather similar across the seven East Asian economies, ranging between 0.77 (Indonesia) and 0.95 (Thailand). Over a ... incentive and entrenchment effects of large shareholdings. Journal of Finance, forthcoming. Claessens, S., S. Djankov, and L.H.P. Lang, 2000. The separation of ownership and control in East Asian...
... was and that’s the way it is on [that day’s date]” at the end of each newscast. 5. For the record, during 2006 and 2008, we visited many countries in Eastand Southeast Asia (Japan, ailand, ... interest and fascination exists about East Asia. For many years, people have been interested in its culture and ways; from Buddhism to Zen, and from mod-ern electronics to cars, EastAsia has ... avoid chaos, and concern for chain of command.Job descriptions are few and vague because workers take their cues about job tasks and responsibilities from their superiors. East Asian bureaucracies...
... Blejer and Guerrero (1990) and Ferreira and Litchfield (2001), and there are examples in which it occurs in across-section, as in Dollar and Kraay (2002), Ravallion (1997), and Ravallion and Chen ... agriculture and toward industry and services. Relative prices of goods and factorsof production change too, and their dynamics involve both long-termtrends and short-term shocks and fluctuations. ... lineage. Someimportant contributions include Adelman and Robinson (1978);Bourguignon, de Melo, and Suwa (1991); Decaluwé and others(1999); and Lysy and Taylor (1980). Computable general equilib-rium...
... health providers can be trained, and standards implemented and monitored. In Tunisia and Turkey, where abortion services are available on demand in both private and public health facilities, survey ... about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.PRB’s MiddleEastand North Africa (MENA) ... men and women in four key categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment (see Table 1, page 14). Overall, all MENA countries...
... Asia East Asia &PacificMiddle East&North AfricaSub-SaharanAfricaLatin America&theCaribbeanEastern Europe&Central Asia MENA OECD East Asia &PacificSouth Asia AfricaLatin ... high-growth EastAsia or in Eastern Europe. The ongoing growthslowdown in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel-opment is also a reminder that these countries remain vulnerable todemand ... Land Markets 129The Low Access to Land in MENA Countries 130Sources of Inefficiencies in Land Markets 132Getting the Incentives Right in Enclaves 142Power and Rent Seeking in Public Land...
... aggregates, such as ‘the MiddleEastand North Africa’ or ‘the MiddleEast as used by other agencies including the United Nations and the World Bank. If the MiddleEast is clearly—as this ... Arab Liberation Front A political and economic dictionary of the middleeast 26 ensuring that the politics and economics of the MiddleEast are both complex and complicated. This should provide ... up-to-date account of the economic, social and political dynamics and status of ‘the Arab countries , fails to include the non-Arab countries of the MiddleEastand therefore cannot strictly be used...
... achieving maternal and child health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South -East Asia 1The South -East Asia (SEA) Region accounts for more than 174 000 maternal and 1.3 million neonatal ... workforce density and service coverage and health outcomes. Most countries experience a mismatch in urban–rural distribution, medical care and public health, and supply and demand. Added to ... achieving maternal and child health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South -East Asia 3The general objective was to facilitate Member countries of the South -East Asia (SEA) Region...