... following pages present the summary
Doing Business
indicators for the EastAsiaand Pacific
Region. Further information is available in the full report
Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs
, ... 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 ... database and included in this country profile are:
Starting a Business: Entry Regulation
Dealing with Licenses: Building a Warehouse
Hiring and Firing Workers: Employment Regulation
Registering...
... the change in within-group inequality, I
W
, and the change in
between-group inequality, I
B
. In turn, both changes may be expressed
as linear combinations of changes in within-group inequality ... decomposition
among groups at a point in time than in that of the change in inequal-
ity between two points in time. Differentiating equation 2.3, it follows
that the change in overall inequality, I, may ... Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce (1993) use a technique
of this kind to study the determinants of the increase in wage
inequality in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. Blau
and Khan (1996)...
... and poor in
Sri Lanka and Thailand are similar, suggesting
that attaining near universal coverage may be
critical in reducing socioeconomic inequities
for this indicator. The inequities in ... birthweight infants (ranging from 9% in
Thailand to 30% in India) and underweight
children (ranging from 9% in Thailand to 48%
in Bangladesh). The prevalence of moderate-to-
severe stunting ranges ... functions
These include coordination, monitoring and
reporting on issues related to women and
children.
Collaboration and NCWC inputs
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... of protein
and fat in peasants. In a rather gruesome tone, he relates anecdotes
of peasants in overcrowded conditions gaining a little more protein
by cracking each others lice between their teeth.
Termite ... Lim
described it as tasteless. One Singaporean eats them for aches and
pains in his legs. In a bizarre incident the buyer of a flat found it
infested with mealworms, and there having been some dispute
over...
... provide income effects of
ASEAN+1, ASEAN+3 and ASEN+6 for almost all single economies inEastAsia found that
the gain for member countries increase with number of countriesin the FTAs. The income ... Paper No. 74.
Urata, S. and K. Kiyota (2005) “Impacts of an East Asian FTA on Foreign Trade inEast
Asia. ” In: T. Ito and A. Rose (eds.), International Trade inEast Asia. Chicago: University ... ASEAN. Adding three East Asian countries
(China, Japan and Korea), intra-regional trade increases to more than 50%. In 2008,
ASEAN+3 countries accounted for 53.2% of ASEAN exports and 56.6%...
... vigour in forest clearing
Opium Poppy Cultivation in South EastAsia 2007
11
Opium abuse
In South East Asia, opium addiction is mainly found in places where opium poppy is cultivated.
Since ... in South EastAsia 2007
17
Remaining opium addiction in Wa region
Impact on ex-opium poppy farmers
In the past, the primary difference between opium poppy growing and non-growing farmers in ... > 20%).
4
Based on 8 northern provinces in 2005, 6 in 2006 and 10 in 2007.
Opium Poppy Cultivation in South EastAsia 2007
15
2 COPING WITH CHANGE IN THE WA REGION:
A CASE STUDY FROM MYANMAR...
... saw their incomes increase
by 22 percent in Thailand and 10 percent in the Philippines. Incomes increased in the rural areas in particular. In the
Philippines, rural incomes grew by nine percent ... Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth inEast Asia, October 2011, World Bank, Washington DC.
28 See Productivity and Innovation inEastAsiaand Pacific: A Stocktaking, ... lending funds
5/ Treasury bill rate
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COUNTRY PAGES AND KEY INDICATORS 57
Box 3� What kind of landing for China?
As the industrialized countries fear dipping...
... Nations, 2000).
In industrialized countries, the increase in the older population has occurred gradually.
However in developing countries, inEast Asia, South -East Asiaand Latin America, the
demographic ... status in some
SEAR countries, and includes the numbers of divorced and separated people in India and
Myanmar (Table 42).
Living arrangements are often the determining factors related to health. Since ...
Regarding smoking and drinking, data from the health status among the Thai population in
1995 showed that the proportion of smokers and drinkers decreased with age. The declining
rate of smoking...
... planning and
design. BM carried out the acquisition, analysis and inter-
pretation of data. BM drafted the manuscript. GN and SA
have been involved in revising it critically for important
intellectual ... consistency
(0.50–0.70) than in comparisons between individual
scores. Furthermore, two of the scales (MH and GH) are
included in the summary measures PsS and PhS, which
are used in the main part of the analyses.
Conclusion
The ... may find
it difficult to reduce the risk of inconvenience and to mit-
igate the child's pain, and this may account for the associ-
ation between a child's gastro-intestinal symptoms and
deterioration...
... Urbanization inAsiaand 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 urbanization ... both urban and poverty trends increasing.
72
The
number of people living in urban slums is expected to double within the next
25 years, and by 2025, 6 out of 10 children in developing countries ... health, population, and nutrition officers; and regional urban
development office personnel.
Guiding Principles and Methodology
During the planning and design stage, USAID and EHP jointly decided...