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... Africa, 24 from East Asia and the Pacific region, 26 economies from Europe and Central Asia, 22 from Latin America, 16 from the Middle East and North Africa, and eight from South Asia. The sample ... China Singapore Norway* 0 Least Cost - Global *Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait. 35 Closing a Business: Bankruptcy East Asia and Pacific Re g ion ... Islands Thailand Palau Tonga Malaysia Korea Marshall Islands Kiribati Mongolia Hong Kong, China Singapore Australia Least Time- Global 7 Reforms—Who is reforming in the region? East Asia...

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... 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 Asia and ... of Urbanization in Asia and 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...

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... Blejer and Guerrero (1990) and Ferreira and Litchfield (2001), and there are examples in which it occurs in a cross-section, as in Dollar and Kraay (2002), Ravallion (1997), and Ravallion and Chen ... agriculture and toward industry and services. Relative prices of goods and factors of production change too, and their dynamics involve both long-term trends and short-term shocks and fluctuations. ... lineage. Some important 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...

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... 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 Middle East and 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,...

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... As ia East Asia & Pacific M iddle Eas t& N orth Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Latin America &theCaribbean Eastern Europe & Central Asia MENA OE C D East Asia & Pacific South Asia Africa Latin ... Economies Are Private Sector Based, 2005 and Previous Decades 26 2.1 Middle East and North Africa’s Weak Growth in International Perspective 48 2.2 Middle East and North Africa’s Growth over the Long ... Land Markets 129 The Low Access to Land in MENA Countries 130 Sources of Inefficiencies in Land Markets 132 Getting the Incentives Right in Enclaves 142 Power and Rent Seeking in Public Land...

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... aggregates, such as ‘the Middle East and North Africa’ or ‘the Middle East as used by other agencies including the United Nations and the World Bank. If the Middle East is clearly—as this ... Arab Liberation Front A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 26 ensuring that the politics and economics of the Middle East are both complex and complicated. This should provide ... television stations operating in the Middle East with good news coverage and incisive reporting and analysis. A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 6 AIA —see Afghan Interim Authority...

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... in East Asia and Latin America. But the fact re- mains that the average gross enrollment rate in secondary schools in MENA in 2003 was 75 percent, compared to 78 and 90 percent for East Asia and ... Malaysia, Thailand, China, and Brazil—most of which had started in 1960 with higher levels of education than Jordan. The gap be- tween other MENA countries for which we have data and East Asia and Latin ... unprecedented de- mands for new learning opportunities and even stronger expectations of better results. Second, globalization has led to a demand for a different mix of skills and competencies, and this...

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... Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia, October 2011, World Bank, Washington DC. 28 See Productivity and Innovation in East Asia and Pacific: A Stocktaking, Eye on East Asia and Pacific ... reconstruction and health. WORLD BANK EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC ECONOMIC UPDATE 2011, VOL. 2 64 COUNTRY PAGES AND KEY INDICATORS Appendix Table 2� Real GDP and Components of Aggregate Demand percent ... Analytics. Appendix Table 4� East Asia and the Pacific: GDP Growth Projections percent change form a year earlier Forecast Forecast 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 East Asia and Pacific 7.0...

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... IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Improving reproductive health care in the Middle East and North Africa would benefit not just women and their fami- lies, but also the region’s social and economic ... Health in the Middle East and North Africa: 57. 25 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: 57. 26 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: 61. 27 United ... Directorate of Maternal and Child Health Care, Ministry of Health and Population, 2001). 6 Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: figures 26, 30, and 33. 7 United Nations...

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... their understanding, love and unfettered belief in me. They always supported me by cheering me up and make me think positively. It would not have been possible without their guidance and support. ... SOLIDIFICATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF BULK GLASS FORMING ALLOYS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ... compositional analyses of the dark, gray and bright contrasted phases and the SEM images, it can be concluded that the bright contrasted phase in BSE image is the α-Fe and the gray contrasted phase an...

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... the stars of economic development, the East Asians, with Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) coun- tries. The World Bank undertook the methodologically standard comparison of growth of the two ... (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,” Middle East 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 financial subsidies...

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... Paper No. 74. Urata, S. and K. Kiyota (2005) “Impacts of an East Asian FTA on Foreign Trade in East Asia. ” In: T. Ito and A. Rose (eds.), International Trade in East Asia. Chicago: University ... for Economic and Policy Research University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi WP-05/2009 Regional Integration in East Asia and Its Impacts on Welfare and Sectoral ... higher for China, Japan and Korea due to the size of their economies (Ando and Urata, 2006; Lee and van der Mensbrugghe, 2008; Plummer and Wignaraja, 2007; Tsutsumi and Kiyota, 2000; Zhang...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 00:24

... in World War II and then with the UN in the Congo, New Guinea, and the Dominican Republic. He had also spent long periods in the Middle East, knew that UNEF’s mandate was “flimsy at best,” and that ... succession—seven Israelis died and twelve were wounded. “The notepad is open and the hand is writing,” Eshkol told the generals who demanded reprisals, assuring them that none of the murders were forgotten and would ... do with those forces, where to put them and how to command them, and whether they should be there at all. Gen. Muhammad Fawzi, austere and by-the-book, had commanded the Egyptian Military Academy...

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