... departments The following pages present the summary Doing Business indicators for theEastAsiaandPacificRegion Further information is available inthe full report Doing Business in 2006: Creating ... strengthens the link between productivity and pay 12 EastAsiaandPacificRegion Hiring and Firing Workers: Employment Regulation Benchmarking—Employment Regulation EastAsiaandPacificRegion ... is reforming inthe region? 37 EastAsiaandPacificRegion Introduction A vibrant private sector—with firms investing, creating jobs, and improving productivity—promotes growth and expands opportunities...
... Increase indicates strengthening vs trend Growth in EAP eased during the first half of the year Growth inthe major developing economies of developing EastAsiaandPacific (EAP) eased over the ... However, in Mongolia investment activity remained subdued inthe first part of the year, after contracting sharply in 2014 as the boom in mining and other investment projects ended Mineral and energy ... Groups ASEAN-4 Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand ASEAN-5 Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam EAP EastAsiaandPacific ECA Europe and Central Asia G7 Canada,...
... existing regional initiatives can boost regional trade and demand and help establish theEastAsiaandPacificregion s new role in leading the global economy world bank Eastasiaandpacific economic ... incomes increase by 22 percent in Thailand and 10 percent inthe Philippines Incomes increased inthe rural areas in particular Inthe Philippines, rural incomes grew by nine percent while urban incomes ... in developing EastAsiain 2011 Real GDP growth inthe developing economies inthe region, excluding China, slowed to 4.5 percent inthe second quarter of 2011, from 5.7 percent inthe fourth...
... Emerging Asia includes East Asia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam Partly reflecting the positive growth differential between theregionandthe rest ... exposes them to the risk of falling into the “middle income trap,” which is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ... particularly the maintaining and furthering of strong regional trade integration Emerging markets (average) 0.4 0.2 Japan Korea Thailand Philippines China Australia Vietnam Singapore Malaysia India Indonesia...
... Framework and Examples of Engagements inEastAsiaandthePacific 1.1 Impact of Natural Disasters inEastAsiaandthePacificinthe Last 30 Years 14 Weather and Climate-Related Disasters and Regional ... financing, and emergency and reconstruction planning In December 2011, the Philippines became the first country intheregion to benefit from the World Bank’s contingent financing facility the ... and disaster risk management He started working inthe World Bank Institute and moved to the Latin American Regionin 2006 In 2010 Mr Procee joined the Urban Rural Integration team inthe China...
... live, in what they produce andin how they produce it, in how much education they get, in how long andin how well they live, in how many children they have, and so on So much change, andthe fact ... changes inthe overall mean or inequality measure can be explained by identifying changes inthe means and inequality measures within those groups or income sources, andin their weights inthe population ... A and B The change in inequality between periods t and t will therefore include, among other things, the change inthe A/B earnings differential It might thus be decomposed into a change in the...
... (MDGs and 5) in South -East Asia 37 workers, but maintaining the quality of training is an ongoing challenge Attention is now being given to management support, supervision and monitoring, and information ... narrowed in Indonesia and Nepal On the other hand, coverage rates among the rich and poor in Sri Lanka and Thailand are similar, suggesting that attaining near universal coverage may be critical in ... awareness on the present status, progress and challenges in MNCH in this part of the world, and assist in charting the course to achieve healthier mothers and children inthe SEA RegionThe Honourable...
... because we not eat them He waxes at some length on the place of insects inthe Chinese diet and their role in making up the deficiency of protein and fat in peasants In a rather gruesome tone, ... meeting together would give each other a lick of these, which thereby became devalued, rather inthe manner of coins being pared at the circumference before milling was introduced In further ... bred in Dailan, China, in mud-pits and are killed by being sprinkled with salt Cooking consists merely of deep frying them and serving on a pancake with salad, rather inthe manner of Peking duck...
... sex and age groups in 1991 and 1992 101 Proportion of smokers in age groups by sex and year in Thailand 103 Percentage of smoking and drinking by age and sex among the elderly in Thailand in 1995 ... Nations, 2000) In industrialized countries, the increase inthe older population has occurred gradually However in developing countries, inEast Asia, South -East Asiaand Latin America, the demographic ... of the ageing inthe rest of the world occurred after the population became rich By contrast much of the elderly population inthe South -East AsiaRegion are still living below the poverty line...
... Together with high growing Northeast Asian economies, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand were named by the World Bank as the high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs)2 During the period 1998-2008, ... than in ASEAN-China FTA scenario The discriminatory nature of regional FTA is obvious when considering the gain and loss of other regions China, Japan and Korea’s welfare improves when they are ... in ASEAn+3 FTA and around 200% in GTL 16 Figure shows an increase inthe share of manufacturing sectors from 29% inthe baseline scenario to 33.7% inthe ASEAN+3 FTA and 40% inthe GTL scenario...
... study TREAT Asia is a cooperative network of clinicians throughout AsiaandthePacific that aims to expand the capacity for broader introduction of HIV/AIDS intheregion TAHOD is the first collaborative ... collaborative study by the TREAT Asia network TAHOD involves 15 clinical sites intheAsiaandthePacificregion Criteria for site selection were based on the ability to contribute data in an appropriate ... centres intheregion Care should be taken in extrapolating our results to all patients treated inthe Asia- Pacificregion Third, because individual patient data were not available, the country income...
... Where A0 is the absorbance of the control solution containing only DPPH after incubation; A1 is the absorbance inthe presence of plant extract in DPPH solution after incubation; and As is the absorbance ... Institute of Medicinal Plant Development of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (China), while the rest were authenticated by the Herbarium of the Singapore Botanic Gardens (Singapore) The voucher ... standing for 30 minutes, the Petri dishes were incubated in an inverted position at 37°C for 18 to 24 hours for bacteria and 24°C for 48 to 72 hours for yeasts The diameters of the zone of inhibition...
... plan, bringing a number of institutions into the process, including the ministries of finance and commerce, not just the trade ministry.” A seminar is one thing, but facing the reality is another ... ensured them choices Singapore the most FTA-inclined nation intheregion has 20 FTAs in force (including those signed by the ASEAN bloc), varying from the free-trade area within the bloc itself, ... in Singapore Inthe intervening years, YCH’s stages of expansion tracked ASEAN’s journey to freer trade It started handling cargo in Singapore’s port inthe 1990s, and fanned out across the region...
... difficulties inthe classroom setting, the research was aimed at finding out: (1) the students’ assessment of the importance of oral presentation skills in their future work, (2) the problems they might ... giving presentations, and (3) factors causing their difficulties and their suggested solutions Specifically, the study has been conducted inthe form of survey research, with the informants of the ... Besides, the data from the study confirm the fact that the infrequent and inadequate feedback and assessment from teacher(s) andthe institution’s lack of conductive facilities also contributed to these...
... formula, in which P stands for the main point; R stands for the reason for the speech; E stands for the example to illustrate the main point and P stands for restating the main point Secondly, the ... summarize, in closing The conclusion reinforces and summaries the information presented inthe body So, a clear summary of the purpose and main points will help the audience get the big picture and increase ... developing the main body of the presentation; reinforcing the ideas outlined inthe main body and presenting the conclusion In second language classrooms, oral presentations are usually inthe form...
... breastfeeding initiation (yes/no) and smoking during pregnancy (yes/no) Prenatal drinking is a trichotomous indicator inthe FFS (never, sometimes, often), and a 5-point scale inthe MCS, ranging ... friend; whether they feel alone; and whether they know most of their neighbors Inthe MCS, mothers report whether their friends live locally; whether they are friendly with their neighbors; andthe ... lower baseline smoking intercepts among South Asian, black and other immigrant mothers, there are no differences inthe latent smoking growth factor Inthe case of drinking frequency, there is...
... bark and frighten them when they walk past to visit their relatives working inthe area The buildings drawn in red in Ocean View represent the ‘flats’, associated with drugs and violence and therefore ... our intentions in that they wanted to gain skills in social research as well as to find out about, as one of them described, ‘what is going on inthe lives and minds of young people living inthe ... horseriding, piano or dancing lessons, are regular and supervised Social visits and visits to the mall are always inthe company of parents On the other hand, the girls had no difficulty in indicating...
... hydrophobic core (M88V) andthe other inthe protein–RNA interaction (T45S), decrease the stability of the capsid Our findings illuminate the role of packing inthe icosahedral lattice of the virus capsid ... with valine (C and D), the cavity volume increased to 43 A3, reflecting a reduction inthe surface area of the residue (% 59 A2) andinthe interactions occurring there (corresponding to the b-sheet) ... bacteriophage andthe M88V mutant for the existence of internal cavities in this regionThe figure shows theregion on coat protein inthe asymmetric unit of the capsid around residue 88 The methionine...
... concerning the kinetics and properties of the enzyme More strikingly, we show a novel role of the PPase enzyme inthe development and molting process of A suum larvae in vitro constructed in UniZap ... postcultures and photographs were taken Enzyme kinetic study The Km (Michaelis constant) and Vmax (maximum velocity) values were determined by incubating the diluted recombinant proteins inthe standard ... gauze and suspended in NaCl/Pi containing 100 lgÆmL)1 penicillin/ streptomycin at 37 °C for h After incubation the tissues were removed, andthe larvae were collected from the bottom of the tube The...