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"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing … with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate-setting for insured …

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Trade reforms, farm productivity, and poverty in Bangladesh

Klytchnikova, Irina - 2006

"This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice...

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Product market integration and household labor supply in a poor economy : evidence from Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2004

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Adapting to Climate Change : The Case of Rice in Indonesia

World Bank - 2012

There is increasing interest in climate change issues in Indonesia particularly in the lead-up to the COP13 or Copenhagen meeting in Bali in December 2007 when there was renewed focus on Indonesia as the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world due to deforestation, peat-land...

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Raskin Subsidized Rice Delivery

World Bank - 2012

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Lao People's Democratic Republic Responding to Rice Price Inflation

World Bank - 2011

The objective of this policy note is to identify likely factors driving rice prices and suggest options to manage rice price volatility in the future. It also provides a snapshot of recent developments in the rice sector, and describes rice and food price trends and their implications. Based on...

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Guinea - Speeding up Technology Transfer to Rice Growers

World Bank - 2012

In Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services. Though rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford. While the national agricultural research system...

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Spearheading Vietnam's Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice

World Bank - 2022

This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so...

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Korea : policy-issues for long-term development ; the report of a mission sent to the Republic of Korea by the World Bank

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