... the Middle East: A Compendium
of Estimates 67
3.2. Budgetary Deficit as a Percentage of GDP 112
5.1. Heads of State of Selected Middle Eastern
Countries 164
Political Reform in the MiddleEast ... (ed.), Civil Society in the
Middle East, Volume 1, Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1995, p. 7.
80 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East
of oil revenues and mounting losses of public-sector ... Democrats? The Case of Jordan,” MiddleEast Journal, Vol. 51,
No. 3, 1997, pp. 373–387.
32 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East
obtain and renew official licenses, and often provides financial
subsidies...
... 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 ... China
Singapore
Norway*
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Least Cost - Global
*Other countries with the least cost are Colombia and Kuwait.
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Closing a Business: Bankruptcy
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... 20062912Original ArticleTRADE and FINANCIAL INTEGRATION IN EAST ASIAKWANHO SHIN and CHAN-HYUN SOHN
Trade and Financial Integration in
East Asia: Effects on Co-movements
Kwanho Shin
1
and Chan-Hyun ... 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 ... consumption and price movements,
∆ ln(C
it
) − ∆ ln(C
jt
) and ∆ ln(P
it
) − ∆ ln(P
jt
), between countries i and j, and
compute the co-movement measures of consumption and price:
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See Lee and Shin...
... 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 ...
incentive and entrenchment effects of large shareholdings. Journal of Finance,
forthcoming.
Claessens, S., S. Djankov, and L.H.P. Lang, 2000. The separation of ownership and
control in East Asian...
... 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 ... avoid
chaos, and concern for chain of command.
Job descriptions are few and vague because workers take their cues about job
tasks and responsibilities from their superiors. East Asian bureaucracies...
... Blejer and Guerrero (1990) and Ferreira and
Litchfield (2001), and there are examples in which it occurs in a
cross-section, as in Dollar and Kraay (2002), Ravallion (1997), and
Ravallion and Chen ... agriculture
and toward industry and services. Relative prices of goods and factors
of production change too, and their dynamics involve both long-term
trends and short-term shocks and fluctuations. ... lineage. Some
important 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...
... As
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East Asia &
Pacific
M
iddle Eas
t&
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orth Africa
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Latin America
&theCaribbean
Eastern Europe
&
Central Asia
MENA OE
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East Asia &
Pacific
South Asia
Africa
Latin ... high-growth EastAsia or in Eastern Europe. The ongoing growth
slowdown in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Devel-
opment is also a reminder that these countries remain vulnerable to
demand ...
Land Markets 129
The Low Access to Land in MENA Countries 130
Sources of Inefficiencies in Land Markets 132
Getting the Incentives Right in Enclaves 142
Power 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...
... achieving maternal and child health
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South -East Asia
1
The South -East Asia (SEA) Region accounts for more than 174 000 maternal and 1.3 million
neonatal ... workforce density and service coverage
and health outcomes. Most countries experience
a mismatch in urban–rural distribution, medical
care and public health, and supply and demand.
Added to ... achieving maternal and child health
Millenium Development Goals (MDGs 4 and 5) in South -East Asia
3
The general objective was to facilitate Member countries of the South -East Asia (SEA) Region...