"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 … on service volume and total health spending. Korea and Taiwan (China) both offer important lessons for the separation of …

in five Asian countries, Malaysia, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam, to better understand whether offline …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

"This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in Brazil and … China. The analysis is conducted in two steps: first an econometric production function is estimated to produce a measure of … productivity. In both countries, and in a variety of industry groups, indicators of poor investment climate, especially delays in …