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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Western Balkans Program: Midterm Impact Assessment [PDF]

, 2016
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) commissioned an impact assessment of its Western Balkans program from 2010 to 2015. As the team who carried out this assessment, our overall conclusion from the assessment is that the RBF program in the Western Balkans
Jennifer Chapman, Michael Dziedzic, Reuf Bajrovic   +2 more
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Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments.
Tanja A. Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu, Valentin Krüsmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Causes of business english speaking anxiety in the Balkans

Journal of English Studies, 2016
Learner anxiety is a critical affective factor in foreign languages education. This study investigated the main causes of speaking anxiety in the context of business English (BE) instruction.
Slavica Cepon
doaj   +1 more source

Survey Report Albania

, 2019
In April and May 2019, more than one hundred surveys were distributed amongst influential figures in Albania.
Angjeli, Dior, Vrugtman, Leonie
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Western Balkans and the European Union. ZEI Discussion Paper C258 2020 [PDF]

, 2020
Individual assessment of each country's relations with the ...
Hajdini, Ermir I., Jokić, Nikola, Lađić, Teodora, Milenković, Ksenija, Preshova, Denis, Syla, Flandra   +5 more
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European precipitation connections with large-scale mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) fields [PDF]

, 2013
To advance understanding of hydroclimatological processes, this paper links spatiotemporal variability in gridded European precipitation and large-scale mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) time series (1957–2002) using monthly concurrent correlation.
Hannah, David M., Lavers, David, Prudhomme, Christel   +2 more
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‘Candidatus Phytoplasma solani’: From infection to all‐round characterisation of distinct tuf‐type strains with different virulence in tomato plants

Annals of Applied Biology, EarlyView.
‘Candidatus Phytoplasma (Ca. P.) solani’ is associated with bois noir (BN) of grapevine and stolbur of solanaceous plants and is primarily transmitted by Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret. Four tuf‐a and five tuf‐b1 ‘Ca. P. solani’ strains were transmitted to tomato plants (cv. Micro‐Tom) by using bait‐plants and by capturing H.
Gaia Carminati, Francesco Pavan, Chiara Bernardini, Diana Sommaro, Abderraouf Sadallah, Rita Musetti, Paolo Ermacora, Marta Martini   +7 more
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How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arnavut ve Sırp Savları Bağlamında Kosova’nın Sahipliği Sorunu

Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2010
Balkanların ve Kosova’nın temel sorunu sınırların milliyetler ilkesine göre çizilmemişolmasıdır. Bu nedenden dolayıKosova bir asırdır Avrupa’nın en sorunlu bölgelerinden birisi olmuştur.
Halis Ayhan
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The logic of secret alliances

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
wiley   +1 more source