... 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 ... (Seoul, South Korea), and taught at the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and the University of Miami. He was raised in the Netherlands. xxxii ◾ Introduction: Comments on Purpose and MethodNotes...
... 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 ... ChinaSingaporeNorway*0Least Cost - Global *Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait. 35 Closing a Business: Bankruptcy East Asiaand Pacific Region ... IslandsThailandPalauTongaMalaysiaKoreaMarshall IslandsKiribatiMongoliaHong Kong, ChinaSingaporeAustraliaLeast Time- Global 7 Reforms—Who is reforming in the region? East Asia...
... 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 ... availability and accessibility of services (e.g., public, private, traditional), and environmental health conditions (e.g., water, sanitation, and air pollution) 3. “Overview of Urbanization in Asiaand ... of Urbanization in Asiaand the Near East : trends and projections of urban growth and population density in three cities and assessment of urban poverty and size of urban poor populations within...
... Britain and France as well as China.However, such arguments hardly mattered when the United States and the Soviet Union each had thousands of nuclear weapons and the other players had only a handful. ... War. Forces and command and control sys-tems had to survive long enough to launch a successful secondstrike, and warning systems had to be able to warn of the im-pending attack and identify ... proliferators—Israel, India, Pakistan, andSouth Africa—only South Africa, a pariah state for other reasons, was subjected to severesanctions for developing nuclear weapons,6 and even those were expost...
... rodents and to permit easy and efficient cleaning and disinfecting. Mud floors and sand floors should never be permitted, as they will render cleaning between batches very difficult and will ... than any other South Asian country (85 million chickens and 33 million ducks). The poultry industry of Bangladesh is still in its early stages of development, and most of the egg and poultry meat ... FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONSRome, 2003159Good practices inplanning and managementof integrated commercialpoultry productionin South Asia FAOANIMALPRODUCTIONAND...
... permits differ-ent groups to interact and cross-fertilize. Afghanistan, the Middle East, India, the countries of Europe, Southeast Asia, the UnitedKingdom, and the United States have all served ... scattered throughout the island, centered in Kotte in the southwest and in Kandy inthe central highlands, and a predominantly Hindu Tamil Kingdom in the north of the is-land, centered in Jaffna. ... public and private sectors. All RAND mono-graphs undergo rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity.6 Urban Battle Fields of South Asia cessful and unsuccessful...
... 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...
... can therefore escape infectionover the long term. The rubber in Southeast Asiaand the PRA area was introduced from South America and it was perhaps fortunate that SALB did not establish during ... most important commercial commodities in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia. Presently, the rubber areas in Asia are free from SALB. If SALB were to establish and spread in the PRAareas the potential ... need to beexamined and their potential risks determined.The Plant Protection Agreement for the Asiaand Pacific region (APPPC) was revised between 1997 and 1999 to update and align the Agreement...
... 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) ... first, third, and fifth quintiles are shown here. Sources: Fatma El-Zanaty and Ann Way, Egypt Demographic and Health Survey 2008 (Cairo: Ministry of Health, El-Zanaty and Associates, and ICF Macro,...
... Asia East Asia &PacificMiddle East&North AfricaSub-SaharanAfricaLatin America&theCaribbeanEastern Europe&Central Asia MENA OECD East Asia &Pacific South Asia AfricaLatin ... Economies Are Private Sector Based,2005 and Previous Decades 262.1 MiddleEastand North Africa’s Weak Growthin International Perspective 482.2 MiddleEastand North Africa’s Growth over theLong ... 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 26ensuring that the politics and economics of the MiddleEast are both complex and complicated. This should provide ... television stations operating in the MiddleEast with good news coverage and incisive reporting and analysis. A political and economic dictionary of the middleeast 6AIA —see Afghan Interim Authority...
... and a range of technical and scientific experts on FMD from South Asia, East Asia, and the West Eurasian epidemiological sub-regions. Progress of long term FMD control Roadmaps in West Eurasia ... directions7 South Asia: action plans, future directions and needs7Southeast Asia: action plans future directions and needs9FMD epidemic situation and control strategy in china11West Eurasia: ... Representative, OIE Sub-Regional Representation for SouthEast Asia, c/o DLD, 69/1 Phaya Thai Road, Ratchathewi 10400, Bangkok, Thailand The SouthEastAsia Foot and Mouth Disease (SEAFMD) Campaign was...
... in EastAsiaand Latin America. But the fact re-mains that the average gross enrollment rate in secondary schools inMENA in 2003 was 75 percent, compared to 78 and 90 percent for East Asia and ... 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 ... unprecedented de-mands for new learning opportunities and even stronger expectations ofbetter results. Second, globalization has led to a demand for a differentmix of skills and competencies, and this...
... 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 INDICATORSAppendix 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...