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Leading with Ideas : Skills for Growth and Equity in Thailand
World Bank - 2012
In Thailand, enhancing workforce skills and promoting innovation is part of the country's strategy to facilitate the transformation toward a more knowledge-intensive and creative economy generating good jobs. This report provides valuable insight for Thailand to develop the skills necessary to...
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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009
"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394105
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Services policies in transition economies : on the European Union and the World Trade Organization as commitment mechanisms
Eschenbach, Felix - 2006
"The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual policy stances over time. While there is substantial...
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Services policy reform and economic growth in transition economies, 1990-2004
Eschenbach, Felix - 2005
"Major changes have occurred in the structure of former centrally planned economies, including a sharp rise in the share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition economies with respect to services intensity and services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522537
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Reforming education finance in transition countries : six case studies in per capita financing systems
2011
, namely per capita financing (PCF), in six countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in an effort to learn which …
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Agricultural extension by training and visit : the Asian experience
Cernea, Michael M. (ed.) - 1983
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Investment strategies for agricultural and natural resources : investing in knowledge for development
Persley, Gabrielle J. (ed.) - 1998
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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …
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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …
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