Towards a More Effective Operational Response (2009)
In South, East Asian Countries, East Asia
This volume is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank and of the Water and Sanitation Program. The findings, interpretations, and...
Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in South and East Asian Countries (2009)
1. This paper presents the technologies for treatment of arsenic-contaminated water, arsenic detection and measurement technologies, and alternative safe water options. After a brief introduction...
Region the Poverty Line Poor Persons (2009)
Samir Radwan, All Developing Countries, South Asia, East Asia
The main objective of this chapter is to explore new approaches to policy for poverty reduction, given the major trends in the international and regional economies, particularly globalization, the...
East Asia, Pacific Infrastructure, Flagship Study
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East Asia, Richard Hulme Accounting
The opportunity for foreign direct investment in East Asia has never looked more appealing than it does for the next decade. The increasing openness of the mainland Chinese consumer market to foreign...
1. This paper focuses on the operational responses to natural groundwater contamination in affected countries of South and East Asia. The paper first outlines the health effects of arsenic ingested...
Project document Information and Communication (2008)
Yasushi Ueki, East Asia, Compiled Mikio Kuwayama, Matsatsugu Tsuji, Yasushi Ueki
not necessarily reflect the views of the Organizations.
that it tries to convey is the work of many. Firstly, we would like to acknowledge the efforts of national teams who took part in the process. Ministry of Education staff, university academicians,...
East Asia, Günseli Berik, Joseph E. Zveglich
of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and...
Systemic Banking Crises (2007)
Gerard Caprio, Daniela Klingebiel, East Asia
The following table presents information on 117 systemic banking crises (defined as much or all of bank capital being exhausted) that have occurred in 93 countries since the late 1970s. The table...
Still the Weakest Link: the Domestic Financial System and (2007)
East Asia, Ramkishen S. Rajan, Ramkishen S. Rajan, Graham Bird, Graham Bird
University to strengthen teaching and research in the field of international economics and closely related disciplines. Its specific objectives are: • to promote individual and group research by...
more decentralized to ensure The World Bank (2007)
Intergovernmental Fiscal Keyissuesof, East Asia, Country Departrent I
intergovernmental fiscal Relations and Poverty relations arise in all three of Viet s 1 t *- @ w s Y aspecrs~~~~asp
Deregulation Bali has also helped change the labor market and Income i growth outside Java-Bali. Improved wages and the shift Have the Outer Islands Been of laboroutofagriculture Left Behind?-partly...
affected by various scenar-ios of regional integratiorn and Liberalization on Indonesia liberalization? And hov is their trade affected by major
Indonesia's pension system: reshape the mandatory defined contribution plan Chad Leechor (Jamsostek), make employer-
Indonesia's rapid, broadly based pattern of growth has as a tool for doing so. Since 1989, minimum wages have led to a spectacular reduction in poverty in the past 25 tripled nominally and...
The Role and Functioning of Business Groups in (2007)
Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, East Asia
We compare group affiliation in seven East Asian countries and Chile, using data for more than 1,000 publicly traded firms. We document that 75 % of listed firms are associated with groups in East...
the World Bank workshop on (2007)
Industrial Policy, East Asia, Howard Pack, Stephen Parker, Dwight Perkins, Meredith Woo-cumings
a revised version of the paper presented at
Communism, Heritage and Tourism in (2007)
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Susan Wong, East Asia, Pacific Region
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