diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female …

. Although advances in improving MDG 4 and MDG 5a (reducing child and maternal mortality, respectively) have been made, progress … this end (Bolivia, China, Egypt, Malawi and Nepal). Although they have different socio-economic characteristics, all have …

mortality and malnutrition rates of infants. Family planning, which promotes contraceptive use and the lactational amenorrhea …

) intensity in ASEAN5 countries, namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, plus 3 countries such as China …, Japan and South Korea. This study contributes to the literature of growth accounting method in the area of calculating …

East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using Japanese … patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have developed among these countries. We find that Japan's technological … specialization saw little change, but those of Korea and China changed rapidly since 1970s. By the year 2009, technology …