"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 …

"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 …

innovativeness at many levels. The authors discuss six main developments that are changing the industrial landscape in Japan and in …