-regional partnership between East Africa and South Asia seeking to integrate indigenous knowledge and practices into Bank supported … operations. The aim was to leverage the experience of IK good practices from South Asia into Bank supported projects in East … Asia and Africa for centuries; similarly, local healers have used medicinal plants in India and Tanzania to treat common …

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing …