... cycles among the crisis countries in the future. Since the Asian Crisis, foreign investors have started to differentiate Korea from the other four Asian crisis countries. Korea is the only country ... affect the business cycle dynamics of theAsiaPacific countries, for example, whether capital flows generate boom-bust cycles, and whether capital flows help explain the synchronization of the ... cycle synchronization in the region. We examine the following twelve countries in theAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand),...
... large declines in the Asia- Pacific equity markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region.There was also ... developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. At the same time, the region’s developed economies grew at 2.2 per cent in 2007, unchanged from the previous year. Asia- Pacific economies are well ... cent for the Philippines. Countries in the region therefore have lost competitiveness intheir exports not only to the United States but also to their other trading partners.Since 2006, the countries...
... to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their own. Sorufa says “Previously we used to cut the ... 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 health. Every month the clinic ... mobilisers are very involved in the clinic arrangements every month. They visit every house in the area and inform them beforehand of the clinic day. They also come on the day in case language becomes...
... of the Philippines Diliman. Cited in EnGendeRights, 2009, Shadow Letter to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Supplementary information on the Philippines scheduled for review by the ... the UNFPA Asia Pacic Regional Oce and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). It is a peer-reviewed thematic bulletin that aims to contribute a Southern /Asia- Pacic, ... Further, 78% of girls and 77% of boys reported that after participating in the GEMS intervention, they feel more comfortable with students of the opposite sex. Notions of sexuality and the...
... with the need to maketheir societies competitive in the emergent information economy. The e-ASEAN Task Force and the UNDP AsiaPacific Development InformationProgramme (UNDP-APDIP) share the ... and friends.2PREFACEOne the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia- Pacific today is pre-paring their societies and governments for globalization and the information andcommunication ... caseswhere the connection between the activity and the injury is not clear, courts alsolook for evidence that the activity was “purposefully directed” at the resident of the forum State or that the...
... plankton net installed on the crest of the barrier reef. While metamorphosis occursin the ocean, these pueruli come into the lagoon by crossing the barrier reef, through the breakers at night,to ... size (≥1 kg). Thereare good opportunities to explore other tropicalregions of the world to assess the potential for the aquaculture of other species of spiny lobster basedon the harvest of ... along the edge of the northern Great Barrier Reef (Figure 2). This north-bound current eventually joins the Hiri Current thatflows eastward past the southern edge of PNG andout into the Coral...
... for achieving MDG 4, theRegional Office for the Western Pacific in collaboration with the UNICEF East Asia and PacificRegional Office has developed a joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival ... the other, child survival has often been at the loosing end. Without significantly increased human and financial resources to match the magnitude of the problem, there is little hope that the ... directly measure the coverage of the key elements of the package and to generate benchmarks for stepped-up advocacy and resource mobilization are at the heart of theRegional Strategy. Their regular...
... role in strengthening Asia s economic fundamentals and allowing the region to lead the global recovery and weather the global economic turbulence of recent years. However, many Asian economies ... October 11, 2012 Asia and PacificRegional Economic Outlook––October 2012 Update Growth in the Asia- Pacific region has slowed. External headwinds played a major role, as the recovery in advanced ... exposes them to the risk of falling into the “middle income trap,” which is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the...
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... many links can co-exist in the same vicinity without causing interference to one another. FlexWave MMW is driving Ethernet beyond the office and into the metro enabling the move towards a single, ... Reducedcostperbitdueto the inherentcost-anddata-efficiencyofnativeEthernet• Samecostasmicrowavewith10timeshigherbandwidth• SimpleandquicktoinstallFlexWave™ MMW 125 - Asia Pacific Millimeter ... metro access capacity by taking advantage of the recently allocated licensed 71-86 GHz spectrum. By using the unique propagation characteristics and the wide bandwidth of that spectrum, FlexWave...
... bear a share of the burden. This assessment will also be affected by whether the jurisdiction is the home country of the financial institution or group or, if a host, whether the institution ... In the context of these proceedings, the secured and privileged (domestic and foreign) creditors of the bank will be paid. The remainder of the liquidation proceeds will be turned over to the ... insurance or other guarantee coverage; Determination of the competent authority for the resolution proceedings of all component parts of thegroup and for the coordination of these proceedings,...
... the Los Angeles Regional Economy 454.1 The Structure of theRegional Economy 454.1.1 General Structure of theRegional Economy 464.1.2 The State and National Outlook to 2015 504.1.3 TheRegional ... policy or other changes. Thissecond forecast is called the alternative forecast, or the simulation. The differences between the controlforecast and the simulation represents the effects of the policy ... impact on theregional economy, and other impact studies prepared for otherairports around the nation. It provides a description of the REMI econometric models of Los AngelesCounty and the other...
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... always grouped in the upper part of the tables to make identification of the special characteristics of these regions easier. Looking at the input to the innovation process, we find the highest ... R&D input. The elasticity should increase as the quality of inputs to the R&D process improves and the spillovers stemming from the R&D activities of other actors in the region become ... Recent attempts to explain the level and the success of regional innovation activities, such as the network approach2 or the concept of ‘innovative milieux’3, emphasize the role of cooperative...