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East Asia
About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.
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TL;DR: The experience of East Asia in the 1960s and 1970s supports the theory that greater openness to trade tends to narrow the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in developing countries as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The experience of East Asia in the 1960s and 1970s supports the theory that greater openness to trade tends to narrow the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in developing countries. In Latin America since the mid-1980s, however, increased openness has widened wage differentials. This conflict of evidence is probably not the result of differences between East Asia and Latin America. Instead, the conflict is probably the result of differences between the 1960s and the 1980s, specifically, the entry of China into the world market and, perhaps, the advent of new technology biased against unskilled workers.
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TL;DR: In this article, the oldest human expansions in Eurasia under theaspect of the factors which could favour or limit the humansettlements were discussed, where the authors considered the diffusion modalities of technical traditions and the effect of climatic and environmental conditions on human movements.
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TL;DR: The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan) as mentioned in this paper, and the recent reforms to them, provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries.
Abstract: The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan), and the recent reforms to them, provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All five systems have managed to keep a check on health spending despite their different approaches to financing and delivery. These differences are reflected in the progressivity of health finance, but the precise degree of progressivity of individual sources and the extent to which households are vulnerable to catastrophic health payments depend on the design features of the system - the height of any ceilings on social insurance contributions, the fraction of health spending covered by the benefit package, the extent to which the poor face reduced copayments, whether there are caps on copayments, and so on. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing public hospitals - rapid cost and price inflation, a race for the best technology, and so on - illustrates the difficulties of corporatization. Korea's experience with a narrow benefit package illustrates the danger of providers shifting demand from insured services with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate setting for insured services, has managed to combine careful cost control with fine-tuning of profit margins on different types of care. Experiences with DRGs in Korea and Taiwan point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects on service volume and total health spending. Korea and Taiwan both offer important lessons for the separation of prescribing and dispensing, including the risks of compensation costs outweighing the cost savings caused by more 'rational' prescribing, and cost-savings never being realized because of other concessions to providers, such as allowing them to have onsite pharmacists.
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07 Feb 1994
TL;DR: A detailed analysis of East Asian countries, politics, and growing markets shows why this enormous region is fast becoming an important market for American businesses as mentioned in this paper, and why it is becoming a major source of investment for American companies.
Abstract: A detailed analysis of East Asian countries, politics, and growing markets shows why this enormous region is fast becoming an important market for American businesses.
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The concepts of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneur were almost unknown or at least unused some 20 or even ten years ago as mentioned in this paper, however, they have become much more discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in EU countries and the United States.
Abstract: The concepts of ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social entrepreneur’ were almost unknown or at least unused some 20 or even ten years ago. In the last decade, however, they have become much more discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in EU countries and the United States. They are also attracting increasing interest in other regions, such as east Asia (Defourny and Kim, 2011) and Latin America.
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