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The Challenges and Obstacles of Post-Disaster Road Infrastructure Reconstruction in the Pre-Construction Phase [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose The reconstruction of road infrastructure in the post-disaster context require different approach when compared with road projects in the normal development context.
Amaratunga, Dilanthi +2 more
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Out-of-pocket payments for health care services in Bulgaria: financial burden and barrier to access.
, 2012 BACKGROUND: In recent years, Bulgaria has increasingly relied on out-of-pocket payments as one of the main sources of health care financing. However, it is largely unknown whether the official patient charges, combined with informal payments, are ...
Atanasova, Elka +4 more
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Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Index insurance lowers agricultural risk but covers only covariate risks. Since farmers do not have complete insurance, they may develop mistrust of insurance when experiencing crop losses and not receiving payouts. Although recent innovations in remote sensing enable the provision of more complete insurance including coverage for ...
Berber Kramer +2 more
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Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Academic Summary With the power and pervasiveness of innovative digital products outpacing regulation for managing the consequences, the development of effective governance mechanisms for innovation is increasingly recognized as a societal imperative.
Samuel Applebee, Leid Zejnilovic
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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance
Thanh Le +3 more
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International Connections: Resources That Support the Growth and Development of Community Foundations Globally [PDF]
, 2005 Documents international linkages between, and support for, the promotion and development of community foundations.
Eleanor W. Sacks
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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Diets, fruit and vegetables consumption, and nutritional status in Benin: A scoping review
Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.This scoping review summarised existing literature on diets, fruit and vegetable intake, and nutritional status in Benin. Key knowledge gaps were on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies and differences in fruit and vegetable intake by geographical and socioeconomic characteristics.
Lilia Bliznashka +4 more
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.The minimum cost of the 10 years on identified nutrition‐specific and nutrition‐sensitive interventions of the National Food and Nutrition Strategy in Ethiopia is estimated to be US$ 2.55bn with an average annual cost of $250 million over 10 years (2021–2030), which is only 2.3% of the Ethiopian Annual GDP 111.27 billion US dollars in 2021 (World bank).
Yetayesh Maru +9 more
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