In recent years, ASEAN has been accelerating its efforts to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. As a member of ASEAN, Myanmar has a mandate to implement a number of policy reforms, as agreed to in the AEC Blueprint. Key reforms include trade liberalization and facilitation in accordance with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), investment liberalization and facilitation...

Dairy farmers and others have been discussing the use of enriched X-bearing semen (sexed semen) for many years (Seidel and Garner, 2002). Sexing bovine semen is possible because X-sperm have 3.8% more DNA than Y-sperm. This difference can be identified with a flow cytometer by staining the sperm with a fluorescent dye that binds to the DNA. The technique is reasonably accurate (10% error rate) ...

There are huge investment opportunities in Africa, especially in infrastructure, where the benefits are expected to be high. In particular, Africa’s absolute and relative lack of infrastructure points to the existence of untapped productive potential, which could be unlocked through scaling up investments in the sector. Notably, infrastructure plays a central role in improving competitiveness, ...

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Dairy producers and others have been discussing the use of sexed semen for many years. Sexing bovine semen is possible because X-sperm have 3.8% more DNA than Y-sperm. This difference can be identified with a flow cytometer by staining the sperm with a fluorescent dye that binds to the DNA. The technique is reasonably accurate (10% error rate) but still very expensive and slow, which has limite...

1.introductionone of the major strategies in rural development is agro-processing and agri-industrial plantations. the puprose of these agro-industrial establishments is to utilize indigenous resources and to bring equilibrium in rural life. moreover, meeting rural population needs, enhancement of rural welfare, and creating employment opportunities are the focus of such interventions. it aslo ...

Health, and specifically the cost of health care, is of great concern to public policy makers and to the public. Medical care is something we all want, in large part because medicine has reduced death and disability dramatically over the last several decades. However, there is a significant problem of rising cost, today consuming approximately $2.4 trillion annually in the United States and inc...

Decision‐makers today are required to assess disaster risk management options in increasingly complex and uncertain environments. Disaster risk management typically involves significant investment to mitigate low probability or highly uncertain events. We argue that under these circumstances existing economic evaluation toolkits do not adequately support decision‐making. Our paper outlines the ...

There is a growing evidence base on the cost effectiveness of malaria interventions. However, certain characteristics of malaria decision problems present a challenge to the application of healthcare economic evaluation methods. This paper identifies five such challenges. The complexities of (i) declining incidence and cost effectiveness in the context of an elimination campaign; (ii) internati...