world bank east asia and pacific regional report

... 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 ... Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org E-mail feedback@worldbank.org Benchmarking—Bankruptcy East Asia and Pacific Region —Compared to Global Best / Selected ... Benchmarking Business Regulations in 155 Countries East Asia and Pacific Region Regional Profile Benchmarking—Entry Regulation East Asia and Pacific Region—Compared to Global Best / Selected...

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... Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacifi c (ESCAP), and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)). It provides ... economies: Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and 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 Asia and Latin America, 2004-2005 21 I. 6. (b) Reserve accumulation and money supply growth in Asia and Latin America, 2004-2005 21 II. 1. United States: Merchandise...

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... in East Asia (EANET) was established as an initiative for regional cooperation among the participating countries, creation of a common understanding on the state of acid deposition problems and ... concentration), soil and vegetation, and inland aquatic environment. Monitoring of wet and dry deposition has been implemented in order to measure atmospheric concentrations and to evaluate fluxes ... draft Data Report was considered at SAC8 by the experts from participating countries. Following the comments and guidance at SAC8, NC has elaborated and finalized the report. The Data Report...

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... the creation of Asian bond markets. What are the Asian bonds? Asian bonds share three common factors; Asian issuers, Asian investors and Asian currencies. Asian bonds are issued by Asian 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, if they are to be designed to serve the needs of both borrowers and investors in East Asia? -...

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... was dire then and that probably has not improved in the intervening years. 25 World Bank, Philippines Urban Development and Water Sector Development, World Bank East Asia and Pacific Sector ... http://www.doh.gov/ph/news/august132001.htm . 37 Cited in Asian Development Bank and Economic Development Institute, 1991, The Urban Poor and Basic Infrastructure Services in Asia and the Pacific, A Regional Seminar, p. 718. ... sanitation, and air pollution) 3. “Overview 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...

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... 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 ... 1998 and signed before 28 September 2007. Source: IDB and World Bank annual reports. Interest rates from other financial sources and MDBs were converging before the global financial crisis and...

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... disbursements, and operations departments and conducted Bank mission work in more than 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and East Asia and 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 WORLD BANK PROJECTS 41 Exhibit 6 Fraud and Corruption under Bank- Financed Contracts: Procedures...

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... 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 ... 14). DIIS REPORT 2011:05 1 THE WORLD BANK AND THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER ADJUSTING TO MULTIPOLARITY AT THE SECOND DECIMAL POINT Jakob Vestergaard DIIS REPORT 2011:05 DIIS REPORT DIIS REPORT DIIS ... variability’, and international reserves). By using IMF quota as the benchmark DIIS REPORT 2011:05 14 The governance of the World Bank 3 e two main institutions of the World Bank Group (WBG)...

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... DC: World Bank. World Bank. 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. ———.1997. World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World. ... Japanese, and was reflected in the Bank s publication in 1993 of the landmark study The East Asian Miracle. The changes in thinking were reflected in the annual reports on development, called the World ... standstills and enhanced bankruptcy procedures, especially when (as was the case in East Asia) private-sector indebtedness is involved. Conditionality has, by and large, been ineffective, and...

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... 47. 29 Naiman and Watkins, p. 20. 30 Walden 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 World Bank and IMF in Africa 7 The World Bank and the IMF development 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 on three African countries, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, in particular. But first an overview of the World Bank, the IMF and structural...

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... 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; World Bank 2000a). However, ... Reforming Public Institutions and Strengthening Governance: A World Bank Strategy (World Bank: Public Sector Group, PREM Network, November). _________. 2000c. World Development Report of 2000/2001: Attacking ... Bank) _________. 1994. Governance: The World Bank Experience (Washington, DC: The World Bank) . _________. 1992. Governance and Development (Washington, DC: The World Bank) . _________. 1991. Managing...

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... 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 ... on a regional level. Park and Bae (2002) and Eichengreen and Park (2005b) pioneered this issue and found that East Asia has developed stronger financial ties with the US and Western Europe than ... economies in East Asia, Japan had the lowest intra -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...

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... academics, researchers and policy makers from around the world gathered to examine the timely issue of how the financial systems and corporate governance in East Asia and 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...

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... lines. See World Bank (2012), Assessment of Costs and Benefits of the Customs Union for Kazakhstan, Report No. 65977-KZ, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region. ... OPEC, emergency reserves, and demand curtailment). On the other hand, there are also downside risks to prices from weaker oil demand and slower economic growth, and to the ongoing impact of ... wholesale and retail trade and transport and communication. In the tradable sector, mineral extraction and manufacturing also took a hit during the 2008/09 crisis as global demand for energy and...

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