... classifications distinguishing lower income and middle- income countries. Middle- income countries are further subdivided into lower middleand upper middle, and categorization depends on a country’s ... low-income countries, 2% in lower middle- income countriesand less than 1% in upper middle- income countries. As shown in Figure 4, population-based measures that address tobacco and harmful ... Disease and risk factor surveillance estimates, international treatment guidelines and cost databases.Figure 4: Total cost of scaling up NCD “best buy” interventions in low- and middle- income countries 0...
... taSk FOrCE ON ExPaNDED aCCESS tO CaNCEr CarE aND CONtrOL IN DEvELOPINg COUNtrIES The mandate of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC) ... report about Jordan and other countries such as China, Mexico and Rwanda provide the groundwork for cross-country exchanges and serve as a guideline on best practices, expertise and resource sharing ... is to design, promote, and evaluate innovative, multi-stakeholder strategies for expanding access to cancer prevention, detection, and care in low andmiddle income countries (LMICs). Working...
... South -East Asian countries (149), intermediate in the countries of Europe (449) and the Western Pacic (412), and higher in the countries of Africa (801), the Eastern Mediterranean (998) and ... professionals and psychiatrists. Outpatient facilities in European and Eastern Mediterranean countries are mainly staffed by nurses and psychiatrists, and in South- East Asian countries they ... the Western Pacic (43%) and South -East Asia (40%), and approximately a quarter in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean (25%). Participating countries of Europe and the Americas reported...
... Maternal mental health and child health and development in low andmiddle income countries Report of the meeting held inGeneva, Switzerland30 January – 1 February 2008 ANNEX ... LOW ANDMIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES 3 Prevalence 3 Risk factors 6 Consequences 7 IMPACT OF MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ON THEIR INFANTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO LOW ANDMIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES ... Cataloguing-in-Publication Data : Maternal mental health and child health and development in low andmiddle income countries : report of the meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, 30 January - 1 February, 2008. ...
... 590 HIV-uninfected and 844 HIV-infected individuals.Study CharacteristicsOf the total studies, 7 (26%) were from low-income countries and 20 (74%) were from middle- income countries. FourteenS1122dJID ... tuberculosis in low- and middle- income countries. The forest plotsdisplay the sensitivity estimates obtained from individual studies and pooled estimates derived from random effects (DerSimonian–Laird)modeling.Figure ... adultsliving in low- and middle- income countries. These data shouldhelp inform evidence-based policies on the role of IGRAs inactive tuberculosis diagnosis in low- and middle- incomeFigure...
... Regulations in 155 Countries East Asiaand Pacific Region Regional Profile Benchmarking—Entry Regulation East Asiaand Pacific Region—Compared to Global Best / Selected Other Countries Cost ... 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 covers every economy with ... ChinaSingaporeNorway*0Least Cost - Global *Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait. 35 Closing a Business: Bankruptcy East Asiaand Pacific Region ...
... Determinants 22 Evidence from Other Cities andCountries 25 3. Overview of Urbanization in Asiaand the Near East 29 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism 29 Country Examples of Urbanization ... 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 ... Include case studies of successful urban programs (countries and cities selected were India and Ahmedabad, the Philippines and Manila, and Egypt and Cairo). xi facilities. Nonetheless, the...
... Blejer and Guerrero (1990) and Ferreira and Litchfield (2001), and there are examples in which it occurs in across-section, as in Dollar and Kraay (2002), Ravallion (1997), and Ravallion and Chen ... agriculture and toward industry and services. Relative prices of goods and factorsof production change too, and their dynamics involve both long-termtrends and short-term shocks and fluctuations. ... lineage. Someimportant 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...
... 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 MiddleEastand North Africa (MENA) ... men and women in four key categories: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment (see Table 1, page 14). Overall, all MENA countries...
... Asia East Asia &PacificMiddle East&North AfricaSub-SaharanAfricaLatin America&theCaribbeanEastern Europe&Central Asia MENA OECD East Asia &PacificSouth Asia AfricaLatin ... high-growth EastAsia or in Eastern Europe. The ongoing growthslowdown in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel-opment is also a reminder that these countries remain vulnerable todemand ... Land Markets 129The Low Access to Land in MENA Countries 130Sources of Inefficiencies in Land Markets 132Getting the Incentives Right in Enclaves 142Power and Rent Seeking in Public Land...
... aggregates, such as ‘the MiddleEastand North Africa’ or ‘the MiddleEast as used by other agencies including the United Nations and the World Bank. If the MiddleEast is clearly—as this ... Arab Liberation Front A political and economic dictionary of the middleeast 26 ensuring that the politics and economics of the MiddleEast are both complex and complicated. This should provide ... up-to-date account of the economic, social and political dynamics and status of ‘the Arab countries , fails to include the non-Arab countries of the MiddleEastand therefore cannot strictly be used...
... Malaysia, Thailand, China, and Brazil—most of which hadstarted in 1960 with higher levels of education than Jordan. The gap be-tween other MENA countries for which we have data andEastAsia and Latin ... strategy adopted by the East Asian countries and, to a lesser extent, by the Latin American countries. More concretely, the information provided in table 1.12 indicates thatthe MENA countries have allowed ... Net Enrollment Rates and Secondary and Tertiary Gross Enrollment Rates, in 1970 and 2003 169 Washington, D.C.The Road Not TraveledEducation Reform in the Middle Eastand North AfricaMENA...
... Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia, October 2011, World Bank, Washington DC.28 See Productivity and Innovation in EastAsiaand Pacific: A Stocktaking, Eye on EastAsiaand Pacific ... reconstruction and health. WORLD BANK EASTASIAAND PACIFIC ECONOMIC UPDATE 2011, VOL. 264 COUNTRY PAGES AND KEY INDICATORS Appendix Table 2� Real GDP and Components of Aggregate Demandpercent ... Analytics.Appendix Table 4� EastAsiaand the Pacific: GDP Growth Projectionspercent change form a year earlierForecast Forecast2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 East Asiaand Pacific 7.0...
... IN THE MIDDLE EASTAND NORTH AFRICAImproving reproductive health care in the MiddleEast and North Africa would benefit not just women and their fami-lies, but also the region’s social and economic ... Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 57.25Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 57.26Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: 61.27United ... Directorate ofMaternal and Child Health Care, Ministry of Health and Population, 2001).6Aoyama, Reproductive Health in the MiddleEastand NorthAfrica: figures 26, 30, and 33.7United Nations...