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How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama, Ricardo Emanuel‐Correia, Fábio Duarte, Mário Augusto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achievements and limitations of the Guiding Principles in Burma [PDF]

, 2008
While the Guiding Principles have galvanised awarenessof and assistance for IDPs in Burma, they have been anineffective tool for dealing with a predatory military ...
Thailand Burma Border Consortium
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The Impact of Market Liberalisation on Bank Performance: Evidence From South and Southeast Asian Countries

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Utilising annual data covering 1995–2022, this study examines the effects of market liberalisation on bank performance in 19 South and Southeast Asian countries. Bank performance is assessed using three dimensions: efficiency, profitability, and stability.
Michael Enowbi Batuo, Sridevi Yerrabati, Ashiq Zaman, Helen Solomon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burma Road and Ledo Roads

, 2008
Soldiers and civilians standing in front of a sign marking the Burma Road and the Ledo ...

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The Xishuangbanna Declaration ATBC 2026 “Building Partnerships for Ecological Resilience and Long‐Term Sustainability in Tropical Asia”

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
The Xishuangbanna Declaration, issued at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) held in Xishuangbanna, China, June 28–July 3rd 2026, builds on the 2006 Kunming Declaration to renew conservation priorities for tropical Asia.
Yang Jiao, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz, Charles H Cannon Jr., Hui Chen, Jin Chen, Yajun Chen, Richard T. Corlett, Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa, Zexin Fan, Eben Goodale, Ruichang Quan, Divya Vasudev, Sidi Wang, Jie Yang, ATBC‐Conservation Committee, Catherine Cardelus, Yaowu Xing   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future Operations

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy,’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security ...
Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen, Chris Perry, Royce Dalby, Yasir Mohamed, Xueliang Cai, Poolad Karimi, IJsbrand de Jong, Pasquale Steduto, Marat Beksultanov, Christopher C. M. Neale, David Molden, Waqas Awan, Laarousi Mohamed, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jeff Davids, Nutchanart Sriwongsitanon, P. S. Rao, Roula Bachour, Palitha Bandara, Sophea Chhim, Richard Evans, Tom Lahad, D. Nagesh Kumar, Zakaria Adawy, Devendra Singh Bundela, Kawa Hakzi, Isaya Kisekka, Nicolas Puelma, Alejandro A. Pannunzio, Benjamin Koetz, Mukhiddin Ibragimov   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point [PDF]

, 2009
Corporate Citizenship as a social phenomena spans a growing body of corporate initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action.
Black, Nicola Mary
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Kipling, "Mandalay" and Burma in the Popular Imagination

, 2016
It is difficult to overestimate the impact on popular perceptions of Burma—indeed, of the “Far East” more generally—of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Mandalay”. It first appeared in the literary weekly The Scots Observer on 21 June 1890.
Selth, Andrew
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Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Dynamical Index for India-Burma Trough

Advances in Meteorology, 2018
Based on the vertical velocity field of reanalysis datasets, this study defines a new dynamical index for the India-Burma trough and supports this index’s advantages by analyzing reanalysis and observational datasets.
Kui Liu, Jinlin Zha, Ruowen Yang, Jilong Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source