... and whether we can find any evidence of business cycle synchronization in the region. We examine the following twelve countries in the Asia Pacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, ... 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 ... correlation in general increased in the 1990s from the previous periods. This is mostly due to the industrial countries in the sample. In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the...
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... FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION 2008 PROSPECTS DEVELOPMENTS KEY ECONOMIC AND 4 China seeks growth with sustainability China continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets as investors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also a withdrawal from markets in the region as ... spurred the record inflation in China in 2007. The increase in the CPI in August of 6.5 per cent year on year was led by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’s largest...
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Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Looking at the Health Sector Response in the Asia-Pacific Region doc
... farhanah.farhanah@gmail.com as keypoints to cutting the cycle of violence and achieving SRHR. ey have to be meaningfully involved in policy making, programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating at all ... are being utilised in the region include integrating GBV into primary health care, reproductive health care, or family planning services. ere are also NGO-led models, as in Papua New Guinea ... however, most often these are not holistic and integrated. 13 Moreover, integration of GBV into the medical curricula is still lacking in the region. 13 ã One of the main challenges faced...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20
Spiny lobster aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region
... found mainly in Ninh Thuan Sea and P. stimpsoni in Quang Binh–Quang Tri Sea (Thuy 1996, 1998). The greatest hurdle in the commercial culture of spiny lobster is the difficulty in growing species through ... of the breeding ecology of the stocks in these regions. Larval ecology of P. ornatus in the Coral Sea Recruitment processes in the Torres Strait and eastern coastal regions are governed by the ... recruitment Introduction There is growing interest in the aquaculture of spiny lobsters as the world market demand for lobster increases beyond what wild fisheries are capable of producing sustainably....
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20
Review of the challenges and opportunities for rural infrastructure and agroindustries development in the Asia Pacific Region. pdf
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World Vision’s Little Book of Maternal and Child Health in the Asia Pacific pdf
... received a single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase in the interest of the mothers in their children’s ... sessions, including demonstration of cooking and feeding, to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their ... 45 Six mothers happily demonstrate breastfeeding in front of other mothers and villagers during the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in Samlot district, early August. After attending a three-day...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
1.2 PREFACE One the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia-Pacific potx
... some- one uses the Internet to cause an injury in one State, the person causing the damage may be hauled into court in the State where the injury occurred. In cases where the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-mail listings. 4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipient into believing that the ... protection in the Internet? 18 Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18 Why is there a need for such initiatives?...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20
democracy and diversity political engineering in the asia - pacific jan 2007
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:16
PREFACEOne the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia-Pacific today is preparing docx
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Tài liệu CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT doc
... cannot be linked back to the source. best in the business in the private sector. This type of The main issue then in is in the feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the track record for customer surveys in the literature thus far and the expansion of their use in the Federal Government. Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these surveys ... consider them to be customers. assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency to measure what was intended, there are still several issues...
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:15
Tài liệu 19 Convergence Issues in the LMS Adaptive Filter docx
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the filter output due to the errors in the filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the ... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore the issues ... generalized expression for these stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ 2 x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 04:15
Tài liệu ISSUES IN THE INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL SATELLITE SYSTEMS FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH pdf
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi- ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC, 1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected in early 1999. The...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases" potx
... action, the speaker and he=rer mutually believe that executing plan P will result in the hearer acquiring the required information, but, since only the hearer is actually executing the plan, the ... result in identification of the intended referent, and in the case of the S[ action, the plan is simply to do nothing, because the referent of the term is already mutually known. This is not the ... knowledge. Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz- ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four 199 Some Pragmatic Issues in the Planning of Definite and Indefinite...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Challenges and Opportunities doc
... Pygmies draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest 47Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Work in progress: construction of a retaining headwall in the village ... Precambrian crystalline basement rocks (including basalt and granite) cropping out in the mountainous terrain along the Albertine Rift from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward, as well as in the lower Congo ... to the long-term sustainability of major infrastructure investments in the water sector. The immediate challenge on the ground is the non-application of basic zoning principles and land delineation...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics Edited by Peter A. Clark pdf
... against society, protecting the individual. However, this creates problems for the clinician because in many clinical situations the rights of one individual impinge on the rights of another, ... depth to the clinician’s understanding of the Four Principles. Seeing Beneficence in terms of maximising happiness and relieving suffering and seeing Non-Maleficence, Autonomy and Justice in terms ... but are lacking miserably in developing countries. Patients in many developing countries are sent home withering in pain with nothing more than ibuprofen to control their pain. These patients...
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