The Fourth International Social Security Association (ISSA) Meeting of Directors of Social Security Organizations in Asia and Pacific was held in Seoul from 9 to 11 November 2005 and was organized in cooperation with the National Health Insurance Corporation of the Republic of Korea. The Meeting was attended by 131 participants from 29 countries. Also at the Meeting were representatives from th...

ABBREVIATIONS ADB — Asian Development Bank CAP — country assistance program CAPE — country assistance program evaluation CSP — country strategy and program DEC — Development Effectiveness Committee DG — director general DMC — developing member country DP — development partner EA — Executing Agency MDB — multilateral development bank MDG — Millennium Development Goal NGO — nongovernment organiza...

Using the most recent data on health spending published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), we explore reasons why U.S. health spending towers over that of other countries with much older populations. Prominent among the reasons are higher U.S. per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as well as a highly complex and fragmented payment system that weakens the dema...

A clear break in the post-World War I1 pattern of rapid productivity growth was a virtually universal phenomenon across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, in most of them beginning in the early 1970s. This development had implications for both the evolution of aggregate supply, as well as the growth of real income and the types of macroeconomic and structura...

During the past five decades developing countries in Asia have provided the most persuasive and credible story as to how poor countries can progress and bring about prosperity for their downtrodden people. Beginning with Japan, followed by NICs particularly Korea, ASEAN countries and now China, these countries have not only doubled or quadrupled per capita incomes in a record time but also sign...

Abstract The legal support and existing potential contours examples of international cooperation in the field hydrogen energy are discussed. Based on study analysis “hydrogen” initiatives organizations activities which partly extend to hydrogen, as well interactions within framework regional integration associations (BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Association...

This article provides an overview of the U.S. health care system and recent proposals for health system reform. Prepared for a 15-nation comparative study for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the article summarizes descriptive data on the financing, utilization, access, and supply of U.S. health services; analyzes health system cost growth and trends; reviews he...

OBJECTIVE To use available suicide-rate data from 20 countries to see patterns and relations more clearly. METHOD We obtained raw suicide rates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) database from 1960 through 1997 and calculated averages and standard deviations. RESULTS There is a positive linear relation between the variation in suicide rate and geographic l...