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Bilateral Remittance Inflows to Asia and the Pacific: Countercyclicality and Motivations to Remit

Asian Development Review
This paper examines the cyclicality of remittance inflows to economies in Asia and the Pacific, aiming to identify major factors associated with remittances using gravity models of bilateral remittances. An analysis that assesses correlation coefficients
KIJIN KIM, ZEMMA ARDANIEL, AIKO KIKKAWA, BENJAMIN ENDRIGA   +3 more
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The Impact of Mobility Restrictions on Trade Facilitation at Borders: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Asia

Asian Development Review
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, mobility restrictions had a significant impact on trade times and costs at the borders, particularly in landlocked developing countries. This paper examines the effect of COVID-19 mobility measures
KIJIN KIM, JEROME ABESAMIS, ZEMMA ARDANIEL   +2 more
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The Psychosocial and Economic Impact of Uveitis in Iraq [PDF]

Journal of Research in Applied and Basic Medical Sciences, 2021
Background & Aims:  Uveitis is the inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented layer that lies between the inner retina and the outer fibrous layer composed of the sclera and cornea.
Hany Akeel Naji
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Economic Impact of Infrastructure

Welsh Economic Review, 2016
<p align="LEFT">This paper looks at the need for and criteria used to invest in infrastructure. This term can cover a wide variety of assets. One element of the infrastructure of the UK is its language and its institutions, which are arguably among the most important elements in our continued success and some commentators would like to see us ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Mixed effects modelling of excess mortality and COVID-19 lockdowns in Thailand

Scientific Reports
Accurate mortality data are critical for understanding the impact of COVID-19 and learning lessons from crisis responses. But published statistics risk misrepresenting deaths due to limited testing, underreporting, and lack of subnational data ...
Anna Christine De Padua Durante, Rutcher Lacaza, Pamela Lapitan, Nishtha Kochhar, Elaine S. Tan, Milan Thomas   +5 more
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Bridging the Evidence-to-Policy Gap: Strengthening Capacities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Translate Antimicrobial Resistance Data and Evidence into Effective Policies

Antibiotics
Background: The translation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data and evidence into policy remains limited in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia and Africa, despite expanded investments being made in AMR surveillance and research ...
Prerana Parajulee, Sajan Gunarathna, Anthony Burnett, Jae Hee Hwang, Jung-Seok Lee, Fadi El-Jardali, Satyajit Sarkar   +6 more
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Comparing impacts of climate change and mitigation on global agriculture by 2050

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
Systematic model inter-comparison helps to narrow discrepancies in the analysis of the future impact of climate change on agricultural production.
Hans van Meijl, Petr Havlik, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Elke Stehfest, Peter Witzke, Ignacio Pérez Domínguez, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Michiel van Dijk, Jonathan Doelman, Thomas Fellmann, Florian Humpenöder, Jason F L Koopman, Christoph Müller, Alexander Popp, Andrzej Tabeau, Hugo Valin, Willem-Jan van Zeist   +16 more
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The Impact of Economic Crises on Changes in Corporate Governance

, 2011
Over the last 10 - 15 years significant changes took place in principal systems of corporate governance i.e. in the Anglo-Saxon and German systems. These changes were of similar or the same character.
Rudolf, Stanisław
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Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási, Bernadett Borbála Huszti, Gábor Barna, Marko Kavcic, Janez Jazbec, Lennart Lenk, Vera Münch, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Ágnes Márk, Maria Thastrup, Lüder H. Meyer, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Cornelia Eckert, Christina Halsey, Dániel J. Erdélyi   +14 more
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Health Capacity to Work among Older Adults in Viet Nam

Asian Development Review
In this paper, we estimated the additional health capacities to work of older Vietnamese adults by applying the Milligan–Wise and Cutler–Meara–Richards-Shubik methods with various nationally representative datasets.
LONG THANH GIANG, AIKO KIKKAWA, DONGHYUN PARK   +2 more
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