... 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 ... ChinaSingaporeNorway*0Least Cost - Global *Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait. 35 Closing a Business: Bankruptcy East Asiaand Pacific Region ... IslandsThailandPalauTongaMalaysiaKoreaMarshall IslandsKiribatiMongoliaHong Kong, ChinaSingaporeAustraliaLeast Time- Global 7 Reforms—Who is reforming in the region? East Asia...
... 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...
... Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia, October 2011, World Bank, Washington DC.28 See Productivity and Innovation in EastAsiaand Pacific: A Stocktaking, Eye on EastAsiaand Pacific ... reconstruction and health. WORLD BANK EASTASIAAND PACIFIC ECONOMIC UPDATE 2011, VOL. 264 COUNTRY PAGES AND KEY INDICATORS Appendix Table 2� Real GDP and Components of Aggregate Demandpercent ... Analytics.Appendix Table 4� EastAsiaand the Pacific: GDP Growth Projectionspercent change form a year earlierForecast Forecast2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 East Asiaand Pacific 7.0...
... 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 ... (Seoul, South Korea), and taught at the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and the University of Miami. He was raised in the Netherlands. xxxii ◾ Introduction: Comments on Purpose and...
... achieving maternal and child health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South- East Asia 1The South- EastAsia (SEA) Region accounts for more than 174 000 maternal and 1.3 million neonatal ... 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- EastAsia (SEA) Region ... maternal and child health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South- East Asia 37Do we have the appropriate policies ã and regulations?Are we providing effective supervision ã and accountability?Have...
... alt="" Nice or Nasty: Food Choice, Food Law and Health in SouthEast Asia by John Candlish and Chee-Hong TanCopyright â 2003 by a division of Asia Pte Ltd.Learning is a trademark used herein ... water and forest and (importantly for this discusssion) a dominance of rice and fish in the diet, with a very small role for meat and dairy products.2In the Association of SouthEast Asian ... Avoidance and Selection 3deleterious, the omnivore must decide which to eat and which toreject.6In this work we wish to explore the patterns of food choice in South East Asia, and we feel...
... municipal health, water and sewer services, and infrastructure and thus has a higher standard of health and welfare. The data would seem to bear out these assumptions. For understanding the health ... availability and accessibility of services (e.g., public, private, traditional), and environmental health conditions (e.g., water, sanitation, and air pollution) 3. “Overview of Urbanization in Asiaand ... of Urbanization in Asiaand 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...
... 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 ... H. Kim and Y. Wang (2006), ‘Financial Integration and Consumption Risk Sharing in East Asia, Japan and the World Economy, 18, 2, 143–57.Kim, S., J W. Lee and K. Shin (2006), ‘Regional and Global...
... 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 ... between 1991 and 1995 and covering 977 firms from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. To be included in the sample, a firm must have at least one year...
... 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) ... first, third, and fifth quintiles are shown here. Sources: Fatma El-Zanaty and Ann Way, Egypt Demographic and Health Survey 2008 (Cairo: Ministry of Health, El-Zanaty and Associates, and ICF Macro,...
... Asia East Asia &PacificMiddle East&North AfricaSub-SaharanAfricaLatin America&theCaribbeanEastern Europe&Central Asia MENA OECD East Asia &Pacific South Asia AfricaLatin ... Economies Are Private Sector Based,2005 and Previous Decades 262.1 MiddleEastand North Africa’s Weak Growthin International Perspective 482.2 MiddleEastand North Africa’s Growth over theLong ... 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 ... television stations operating in the MiddleEast with good news coverage and incisive reporting and analysis. A political and economic dictionary of the middleeast 6 AIA —see Afghan Interim...
... in EastAsiaand Latin America. But the fact re-mains that the average gross enrollment rate in secondary schools inMENA in 2003 was 75 percent, compared to 78 and 90 percent for East Asiaand ... Malaysia, Thailand, China, and Brazil—most of which hadstarted in 1960 with higher levels of education than Jordan. The gap be-tween other MENA countries for which we have data andEastAsia and Latin ... unprecedented de-mands for new learning opportunities and even stronger expectations ofbetter results. Second, globalization has led to a demand for a differentmix of skills and competencies, and this...
... with weak plant vigour in forest clearing Opium Poppy Cultivation in SouthEastAsia 2007 11Opium abuse In SouthEast Asia, opium addiction is mainly found in places where opium poppy is cultivated. ... Socio-economic and vulnerability analysis of Naung Khit, Nam Kham Wu, Man Man Hsain and Kong Ming Sang Townships. UNODC Wa project, Myanmar 2007. Opium Poppy Cultivation in SouthEastAsia 2007 5 Map ... regions have produced most of South EastAsia s opium. Motivated by development and poverty alleviation objectives, the Governments of Lao PDR, Myanmar and Thailand each committed to end opium...
... IN THE MIDDLE EASTAND NORTH AFRICAImproving reproductive health care in the MiddleEast and North Africa would benefit not just women and their fami-lies, but also the region’s social and economic ... Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 57.25Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 57.26Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 61.27United ... Directorate ofMaternal and Child Health Care, Ministry of Health and Population, 2001).6Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: figures 26, 30, and 33.7United Nations...