"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … 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 …

"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 …

"Serrano and Trujillo quantify the evolution of technical efficiency in port infrastructure service provision in the … place in the 1990s had an impact on the efficiency of the Spanish container ports. Because of the multi-output nature of … efficiency has in fact changed little on average. But there is a significant movement of the efficiency within ports over time as …

in their operations. This report details the state of Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) efficiency in Zambia, focusing on … review of the state of WSS efficiency in Zambia. In addition to stating the efficiency bottlenecks in WSS delivery, the … efficiency of the three pilot CUs. The section emphasizes i-TOC as an assessment tool that overcomes the flaws of traditional PIs …

with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The coming year presents an important … opportunity for Bulgaria to improve its support for science, technology, and innovation (STI). This report assesses the efficiency … STI (PER STI) project. This efficiency analysis addresses an identified gap in Bulgaria's STI system: the monitoring and …