ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY? INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS AND DOMESTIC FINANCIAL REFORMS IN EAST ASIA Ramkishen S. Rajan This paper discusses trends and patterns in international capital flows in the crisis affected East Asian economies during the bust period and eventual recovery that followed (1997 to early 2000). The economies have experienced a rapid rebound in regional economic activity, i.e. t...

Since 1950, there has been considerable diversity in developing country experiences. Some countries and some regions have experienced rapid growth and catch up, others have fallen behind. At a global level there is an increasing inequality of per capita incomes. However, within the framework of increasing inequality, some countries have experienced accelerated catch up. The speed of catch up in...

Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated at the start of the 1990s. By the end of 2001, developing countries had seen over $755 bn of investment flows in nearly 2...

It is well known that TCP experiences performance problems (unfairness and starvation) in multi-hop wireless networks. Such problems are often traced to the misbehavior of dynamic routing protocols in case of link failure. However, in this paper we show, through simulations, that unfairness and starvation of flows also take place with static routing; thus competition between TCP flows in a mult...

Simulation is considered to be a method to improve planning and control efficiency in the field of logistics. In our view no existing simulation tool meets the basic requirements sufficiently. We therefore developed a new simulator with the following characteristics: • Simulation principles: General purpose discrete event simulator. • Modeling basis: Meta model comprising few specific basic ele...

Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world’s most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and capital. Indeed, these two facts may be strongly related: All factors seek to enter the US because of the US technological superiority. The literature on international factor flows rarely links the...

Information flows across the organization are complex and procedures employed to understand, share and control organizational knowledge and experiences should be properly supported by collaborative environments. Nevertheless, few collaborative methodologies had been proposed to describe and evolve business processes. Existing tools don't provide the right methods for business processes discover...

Modern genomic analysis often requires workflows incorporating multiple best-of-breed tools. GenomeSpace is a web-based visual workbench that combines a selection of these tools with mechanisms that create data flows between them. One such tool is Cytoscape 3, a popular application that enables analysis and visualization of graph-oriented genomic networks. As Cytoscape runs on the desktop, and ...

A new draft has been submitted to the Transport Area working group (WG): draft-saldana-tsvwg-tcmtf. The primary goal of this draft is optimization of real-time flows independently from the use of real-time protocol (RTP) (RFC 3550: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications, RFC 3551: RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control). This draft proposes that a number of sm...

Flow experience is a state of mind in which one is totally absorbed in a task. This study explored the daily flow patterns related to working and non-working tasks among healthy and non-healthy (burned-out) individuals using the Experience Sampling Method. The main aim of this study was to explore flow throughout the day using an operationalization that focused on the flow experience itself, as...