... cycles among the crisis countries in the future. Since the Asian Crisis, foreign investors
have started to differentiate Korea from the other four Asian crisis countries. Korea is the only
country ... 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 ... 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),...
... large declines in the Asia- Pacific equity markets as
investors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from
the United States to the Asia- Pacific region.
There was also ... developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. At the same time, the
region’s developed economies grew at 2.2 per cent in 2007, unchanged from
the previous year.
Asia- Pacific economies are well ... cent for
the Philippines. Countries in the region therefore have lost competitiveness in
their exports not only to the United States but also to their other trading partners.
Since 2006, the countries...
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the group. After that they take on the responsibility
themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and
starting new groups of their own.
Sorufa says “Previously we used to cut the ... 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...
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Shadow Letter to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Supplementary information on the Philippines scheduled
for review by the ... 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, ... Further, 78% of
girls and 77% of boys reported that after participating
in the GEMS intervention, they feel more comfortable
with students of the opposite sex. Notions of sexuality
and the...
... with the need to make
their societies competitive in the emergent information economy.
The e-ASEAN Task Force and the UNDP AsiaPacific Development Information
Programme (UNDP-APDIP) share the ... and friends.
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One the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia- Pacific today is pre-
paring their societies and governments for globalization and the information and
communication ... cases
where the connection between the activity and the injury is not clear, courts also
look for evidence that the activity was “purposefully directed” at the resident of the
forum State or that the...
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in the ocean, these pueruli come into the lagoon by crossing the barrier reef, through the breakers at night,
to ... size (≥1 kg). There
are good opportunities to explore other tropical
regions of the world to assess the potential for the
aquaculture of other species of spiny lobster based
on the harvest of ... along the edge of the
northern Great Barrier Reef (Figure 2). This north-
bound current eventually joins the Hiri Current that
flows eastward past the southern edge of PNG and
out into the Coral...
... for achieving MDG 4, theRegional
Office for the Western Pacific in collaboration with the UNICEF East Asia and PacificRegional
Office has developed a joint WHO/UNICEF Regional Child Survival ... 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 ... directly measure the coverage of the
key elements of the package and to generate benchmarks for stepped-up advocacy and resource
mobilization are at the heart of theRegional Strategy. Their regular...
... role in
strengthening Asia s economic fundamentals and
allowing the region to lead the global recovery and
weather the global economic turbulence of recent
years. However, many Asian economies ... October 11, 2012
Asia and PacificRegional Economic Outlook––October 2012 Update
Growth in the Asia- Pacific region has slowed. External headwinds played a major role, as the recovery in advanced ... 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...
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IT outsourcing trend in the banking industry – possible re-thinking and a new business model
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Reduce the coupling between the business tier and the data tier
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characteristics and the wide bandwidth of that spectrum, FlexWave...
... bear a share of the burden.
This assessment will also be affected by whether the jurisdiction is the home country of the
financial institution or group or, if a host, whether the institution ... In the context of these proceedings, the secured and
privileged (domestic and foreign) creditors of the bank will be paid. The remainder of the
liquidation proceeds will be turned over to the ... insurance or other guarantee coverage;
Determination of the competent authority for the resolution proceedings of all
component parts of thegroup and for the coordination of these proceedings,...
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4.1 The Structure of theRegional Economy 45
4.1.1 General Structure of theRegional Economy 46
4.1.2 The State and National Outlook to 2015 50
4.1.3 TheRegional ... policy or other changes. This
second forecast is called the alternative forecast, or the simulation. The differences between the control
forecast and the simulation represents the effects of the policy ... impact on theregional economy, and other impact studies prepared for other
airports around the nation. It provides a description of the REMI econometric models of Los Angeles
County and the other...
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The ... allegory the triumph of Energy, the Lord of the Isthmian Way.
It is the central sculptural feature of the South Garden, occupying the
great quatrefoil pool in front of the tower. The theme is ...
it in the water at the four relatively respective points of the compass,
North, South, East and West, are groups representing the Atlantic and
the Pacific Oceans and the North and the South...
... always grouped in the upper part of the tables to make identification of
the special characteristics of these regions easier. Looking at the input to the
innovation process, we find the highest ... R&D input. The
elasticity should increase as the quality of inputs to the R&D process improves
and the spillovers stemming from the R&D activities of other actors in the
region become ...
Recent attempts to explain the level and the success of regional
innovation activities, such as the network approach
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or the concept of
‘innovative milieux’
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, emphasize the role of cooperative...