... 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 ...
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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...
... 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?
-...
... was dire then and that probably has not
improved in the intervening years.
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Asia andPacific Sector ...
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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 more
than 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?
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Exhibit 6
Fraud 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. New
York: 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 indebtedness
is 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 Development
In reassessing its course, the Bank examined how...
... 47.
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Naiman and Watkins, p. 20.
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Walden Bello and Shea Cunningham, “The World
Bank & The IMF,” Z Magazine, July 1994; Sanders,
Z Magazine, op.cit., p. 95.
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The WorldBankand 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...
... 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 Economic
Journal...
... 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 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...
... 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
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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
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2 History and Context of Public Administration in
Mainland China...