... 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 ... Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org E-mail feedback@worldbank.org Benchmarking—Bankruptcy East AsiaandPacific Region —Compared to Global Best / Selected ... Benchmarking Business Regulations in 155 Countries East AsiaandPacific Region Regional Profile Benchmarking—Entry Regulation East AsiaandPacific Region—Compared to Global Best / Selected...
... Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic and Social Commission for Asiaand the Pacifi c (ESCAP), and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)). It provides ... economies:Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asiaand the Pacifi c (excluding Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the member States of CIS in Asia) . Subgroupings of Latin America and the Caribbean:South ... accumulation and real exchange rates in Asiaand Latin America, 2004-2005 21 I. 6. (b) Reserve accumulation and money supply growth in Asiaand Latin America, 2004-2005 21 II. 1. United States: Merchandise...
... thecreation of Asian bond markets.What are the Asian bonds?Asian bonds share three common factors;Asian issuers, Asian investors and Asiancurrencies. Asian bonds are issued byAsian entities ... Yung-Chul and Daekeun Park, “Creating Regional Bond Markets in East Asia: Rationale and Strategy”Rhee, S. Ghon, “The Structure and Characteristics of East Asian Bond Markets”The following papers ... regional bond markets in East Asia? - What would be the structure and characteristics of these markets, ifthey are to be designed to serve theneeds of both borrowers and investors in East Asia? -...
... was dire then and that probably has not improved in the intervening years. 25 World Bank, Philippines Urban Development and Water Sector Development, WorldBankEast Asia andPacific Sector ... http://www.doh.gov/ph/news/august132001.htm. 37 Cited in Asian Development Bankand Economic Development Institute, 1991, The Urban Poor and Basic Infrastructure Services in Asiaand the Pacific, A Regional Seminar, p. 718. ... Overview of Urbanization in Asiaand the Near East 3 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism The world is urbanizing rapidly. Between 1950 and 2000, the percentage of the world s total population...
... relief and rehabilitation, and disaster prevention and preparedness are Multisector and Other; banking and financial services, and business and other services are Financing and Business; and government ... 2012. World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks. ADBI Working Paper 380. Tokyo: Asian ... Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks Fernando Prada No. 380 September 2012 Asian Development Bank...
... disbursements, and operations departments and conducted Bank mission work in morethan 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, andEastAsiaand the Pacific. ... entities, and anticorruption efforts. Mr. Gill has frequently provid-ed technical advice and support to the Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, and Africa Regions of the Bank. He designed and delivered ... situation favor fraud and corruption and what can be done to prevent them?28 PREVENTING FRAUD AND CORRUPTION IN WORLDBANK PROJECTS 41Exhibit 6Fraud and Corruption under Bank- Financed Contracts:Procedures...
... and Asia, respectively. Americas+ is the Americas and Australasia. Australasia is a sub-group of Oceania. Oceania consists of Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island and three groups of island ... island states: Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Taken together, Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island and the Melanesian islands are known as Australasia. is part of Oceania is combined ... comparison of China and India with the Netherlands and Belgium is illustrative. Although the voting power of China and India together is now double that of Belgium and the Netherlands, the relative...
... DC: World Bank. World Bank. 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. NewYork: Oxford University Press.———.1997. World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World. ... standstills and enhanced bankruptcy procedures,especially when (as was the case in East Asia) private-sector indebtednessis involved. Conditionality has, by and large, been ineffective, and ... development, aid in general and the Bank s aid in particular, and relationships between the Bankand developing countries.New Thinking about DevelopmentIn reassessing its course, the Bank examined how...
... 47.29Naiman and Watkins, p. 20.30Walden Bello and Shea Cunningham, “The World Bank & The IMF,” Z Magazine, July 1994; Sanders,Z Magazine, op.cit., p. 95.31 World Bank, World Development ... The WorldBankand IMF in Africa 7The WorldBankand the IMFdevelopment assistance to middle-income and creditworthy poor countries; International Devel-opment Association (IDA), the Bank s ... the World Bank and the IMF’s SAPs, on Africa generally and onthree African countries, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, in particular. But first an overviewof the World Bank, the IMF and structural...
... economic and social resources for development; and the capacity of governments to design, formulate and implement policies and discharge functions (World Bank 1991 1992 1994; WorldBank 2000a).However, ... Bank) _________. 1994. Governance: The WorldBank Experience (Washington, DC: The World Bank) ._________. 1992. Governance and Development (Washington, DC: The World Bank) ._________. 1991. Managing ... Public Goods (The World Bank Operations Evaluation Department, OED Working Paper Series, no.4).Gilbert, Christopher, Andrew Powell, and David Vines. 1999. “Positioning the WorldBank , in EconomicJournal...
... 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), Regionaland Global ... 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 ... economies in East Asia, Japan had the lowestintra -regional share of trade at about 39.2 per cent in 2003.According to Lee and Shin (2006), the share of intra -regional trade in East Asia was somewhat...
... academics, researchers and policy makers from around the world gathered to examine the timely issue of how the financial systems and corporate governance in EastAsiaand Japan should be redesigned ... 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...
... for achieving MDG 4, the Regional Office for the Western Pacific in collaboration with the UNICEF EastAsiaandPacificRegional Office has developed a joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival ... policy-makers and partner agencies. a Region is defined as countries and areas common to the WHO Western Pacific Region and the UNICEF EastAsia Region. In addition, some South Pacific island ... 78(10):1234-1245 33 WorldBank PRSP website: http://www.worldbank.org/participation/PRSP/PRSP.htm 34 The World Health Report 2005. Making every mother and child count. WHO 2005 WORLD HEALTH...
... older persons in Asiaand the Pacific. I. Key gaps and challenges The Forum identified the following gaps and challenges facing elderly care services in Asia and the Pacific: A. ... challenge. Enhancing Elderly Care Services in Asiaand the Pacific Outcome Document of the Regional Forum on Elderly Care Services in Asiaand the Pacific 21-22 January 2011, Nanjing, China ... Services in Asiaand the Pacific was convened on 21 and 22 January 2011 in Nanjing, China, to identify good practices, policy gaps and priority areas for action in ensuring quality health and long-term...
... 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 ... Administration in East Asia: Common Roots, Ways, and Tasks 1Ev An B ERMAn1SECTION MAINLAND CHINAYIj IA j Ing , Co o Rd In ATo R 2 History and Context of Public Administration in Mainland China...