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CHANGES IN JAPANESE FOREIGN AID POLICY [PDF]

The main part of Japanese aid is directed to Asia and there has been a strong emphasis on economic infrastructure, that is building railways, roads and ports etc.
Söderberg, Marie
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With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
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Prevalence and Nationality Distribution of Known and Novel Genetic Variants in Children With Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in the State of Qatar

Clinical Genetics, EarlyView.
CT scan image of a 17‐year‐old female with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) showing dextrocardia and bilateral bronchiectasis. The study describes genetic mutations affecting patients with PCD in Qatar and the corresponding clinical phenotype of affected patients.
Atqah AbdulWahab, Reem Mohamed, Amani Hamid, Hadeel Alzoubi, Donald R. Love, Kelly Robinson, Ibrahim Janahi, Mutasim Abu‐Hasan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

ODA FOR CHINA: SEED MONEY AND A WINDOW FOR CONTACTS [PDF]

The Chinese economy has been growing with an average of 10 per cent during the last 25 years. Walking in downtown Shanghai or Beijing, you can find some spots that are so luxurious that they are unrivalled in the world.
Liping, He, Söderberg, Marie
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

African Regionalism and International Resources for Africa’s Development in the XXI Century

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
This article is dedicated to the analyzing of contemporary perspectives of African’ regionalism. The author examines international resources of the development of African regionalism, focuses on the policy of ODA.
Maria Aleksandrovna Bulanakova
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In vitro antifungal activity of plant extracts against fungal pathogens of onion (Allium cepa L.) and red pepper (Capsicum annum L.) in selected districts of Western Hararghe, Ethiopia

BMC Plant Biology
Introduction Identifying pathogenic fungi from vegetable is a critical first step in disease management and development of effective plant-based antifungal agent, aligning with environmentally friendly and sustainable agricultural practices.
Abdulaziz Abrahim, Muhidin Tahir, Sali Ahmed, Gadefa Dinsa   +3 more
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The scientific technique ODA cooperation model: The research equipment and the operation technology support

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
This paper is discussed and presented for the scientific technique official development assistance (ODA) cooperation. The three factors of the scientific technique are the research cost, the research personnel, and the research equipment.
Donghun Yoon
doaj   +1 more source

Characterisation of a cold‐adapted, thermostable glucokinase from psychrophilic Pseudoalteromonas sp. AS‐131 reveals how the enzyme achieves high thermal stability without loss of cold adaptation

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
We investigated glucokinase from the psychrophilic Pseudoalteromonas sp. AS‐131 (PsGK), which was isolated from the Antarctic Ocean. Biochemical studies revealed that PsGK is a cold‐adapted enzyme with high thermal stability, in contrast to general cold‐adapted enzymes, which have low thermal stability.
Akane Yato, Yuki Kato, Fuyuko Hayashi, Rio Asaka, Atsuko Ogawa, Tokuro Oda, Sayaka Tsuji, Masashi Unno, Nobuaki Soh, Keiichi Watanabe, Masaki Horitani   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source