(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank …, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings … the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the effects of bank capital regulation …

microfinance institutions have been moving away from group-based contracts. "--World Bank web site …

(albeit incompletely) existing good practices in bank risk measurement. However, its effective implementation in many … priority. "--World Bank web site …