... cycle synchronization in the region. We examine the following twelve countries in theAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand), ... Stylized Facts of Business Cycles In this section, we document the main characteristics of business cycles of the selected countries in theAsiaPacific region. 8 We use the data from the International ... affect the business cycle dynamics of theAsiaPacific countries, for example, whether capital flows generate boom-bust cycles, and whether capital flows help explain the synchronization of the...
... economies in the ESCAP region, 2006-2007Developing economies of the region East and North-East Asia North and Central Asia South and South-West Asia South-East Asia Developed economies of the region 0.0 ... large declines in the Asia- Pacific equity markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also ... far the impact of high oil prices on theregion has been limited for severalreasons that were discussed in the Key Economic Developments and Prospectsin the Asia- PacificRegion 2006. First, the...
... of the Philippines Diliman. Cited in EnGendeRights, 2009, Shadow Letter to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Supplementary information on the Philippines scheduled for review by the ... the region. 13• One of the main challenges faced by most countries is the lack of temporary shelters for survivors, mainly due to the high costs associated with establishing and running these ... the UNFPA Asia Pacic Regional Oce and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). It is a peer-reviewed thematic bulletin that aims to contribute a Southern /Asia- Pacic,...
... since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase in the interest of the mothers in their children’s health. Every month the clinic ... mobilisers are very involved in the clinic arrangements every month. They visit every house in the area and inform them beforehand of the clinic day. They also come on the day in case language becomes ... because they cannot afford the bus fare to get there.“Anaemic conditions are very common in these young mothers and their babies. Almost all who visit this clinic are estate labourers. They...
... with the need to maketheir societies competitive in the emergent information economy. The e-ASEAN Task Force and the UNDP AsiaPacific Development InformationProgramme (UNDP-APDIP) share the ... and friends.2PREFACEOne the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia- Pacific today is pre-paring their societies and governments for globalization and the information andcommunication ... caseswhere the connection between the activity and the injury is not clear, courts alsolook for evidence that the activity was “purposefully directed” at the resident of the forum State or that the...
... countriesin the region. It is one of the many measures that theAsia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission (APPPC)is putting in place to prevent SALB disease in the region. The reference ... measures. It allowed the processfor the acceptance of the second part of the 1999 amendments to theAsia and Pacific Plant ProtectionAgreement to proceed. The amendment is about the deletion of ... SouthAmerica were introduced and imposed in the 1950’s as required by Article IV in thePacific Plant ProtectionAgreement for theAsia and Pacific region. In addition, the Association of Natural Rubber...
... from the vessel’s arrival at the port of entry to the shipment’s delivery at the factory warehouse. For exporting the goods, the procedures measured range from the packing of the goods at the ... World Bank departments. The following pages present the summary Doing Business indicators for the East Asia and Pacific Region. Further information is available in the full report Doing Business ... those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...
... Corporation1983Brussels2000LondonParis20021991Luxembourg2003Geneva2002Singapore2004Jakarta2006Dubai Page 6 The Enterprise of the Year 2005 awardC&W wins the Enterprise of the Year 2005 award organized by Callatay & Wouters ... competitors in Asia. Expansion of Chinese and Indian Banks in Asia. IT outsourcing trend in the banking industry – possible re-thinking and a new business modelAccelerated expansion regionally ... ArchitectureBusiness Objects ArchitectureReduce the coupling between the business tier and the data tierBusiness objects definition and access methodsRelationships with other Business objects Handle...
... many links can co-exist in the same vicinity without causing interference to one another. FlexWave MMW is driving Ethernet beyond the office and into the metro enabling the move towards a single, ... Reducedcostperbitdueto the inherentcost-anddata-efficiencyofnativeEthernet• Samecostasmicrowavewith10timeshigherbandwidth• SimpleandquicktoinstallFlexWave™ MMW 125 - Asia Pacific Millimeter ... metro access capacity by taking advantage of the recently allocated licensed 71-86 GHz spectrum. By using the unique propagation characteristics and the wide bandwidth of that spectrum, FlexWave...
... either inwild-type strains and in mutant strains harboring mutationsin the genes encoding enzymes of the biosynthesis and/or the transfer of the O-specific polysaccharide [12,13]. The core region ... lipopolysaccharide coreregions.Based on this finding, the hypothesis can be advancedthat the insertion of pyruvate residues at the end of the oligosaccharide chain blocks its elongation, thereby leadingto ... 4. Sections of the high field region of the (A) ROESY and (B) HMBC spectra. Correlations of pyruvate methyl groups are shown. (A) The 4,6Pyr-GlcN residue is drawn in the middle of the figure with...
... structured regions is only observed for the central part ofcMeCP2 MAR-BD, i.e. for theregion between residues 101and 163. This indicates that the remaining N-terminaland C-terminal regions of the ... this region bMost favored region 89.7 (58.3)Additionally allowed region 10.3 (28.1)Generously allowed region – (8.3)Disallowed region – (5.2)aUsing the computer programTALOS[27].bThese ... anantiparallel one-turn helix on the other face. It is thoughtthat the two inner strands of the b-sheet lie within the majorgroove of the DNA and that a hydrophobic pocket formedby the side chains of Y123...
... for achieving MDG 4, the Regional Office for the Western Pacific in collaboration with the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office has developed a joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival ... partner agencies. a Region is defined as countries and areas common to the WHO Western PacificRegion and the UNICEF East Asia Region. In addition, some South Pacific island nations not ... the other, child survival has often been at the loosing end. Without significantly increased human and financial resources to match the magnitude of the problem, there is little hope that the...
... result of the requirements of the enforcement settlements (to be discussed in more detail later), resulting in a region- wide reduction of about 90 percent for all units in the region. The region- wide ... of the cracking takes place inside the riser pipe at temperatures between 880 and 980oF. The fluidized catalyst and the reacted hydrocarbon vapor are then transferred to the reactor where they ... these units. The largest category of PM2.5 emissions is the cracking/coking group. About 58 percent of the fine particulate is emitted from this group. Boilers/heaters and flares are the other...