International healthcare worker migration in Asia Pacific: International policy responses

International Migration in South-East Asia :

Banks and public sector authorities: the international financial crisis and policy challenges in Asia-Pacific

The aim of this paper is to view the current financial crisis through the prism of conceptual models of the basic relationships between the commercial banking sector on the one hand and the public sector authorities, comprising the government, especially the ministry of finance, central bank and specialist regulatory/supervisory authorities, on the other. In Section II, I set out my interpretat...

Urban Migration Trends, Challenges, Responses and Policy in the Asia-Pacific

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Asia-pacific Chapter Newsletter International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ispd)

In Australia, peritonitis is an important cause of technique failure and infectious deaths amongst peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. The temperature and humidity differences in individual climatic regions may influence the development of PD peritonitis by changing patient behaviour and hygiene, distribution of normal skin flora, organism virulence, and the chance of contamination. Previous stu...