The phrase "assistance for growth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where support or help is being provided to facilitate development or improvement, whether personal, professional, or organizational.
Example: "The organization offers various programs that provide assistance for growth to small businesses looking to expand their operations."
Alternatives: "support for development" or "aid for progress".
The authors thank Dr. Brian Davison (ORNL) for assistance with growth and fermentation calculations, and Dr. James G. Elkins (ORNL) for critical comments during manuscript preparation.
This assistance, furnished largely by the United States Agency for International Development, may eventually determine which approach best promotes broad-based economic growth: assistance for farmer collectives or credits for nimble entrepreneurs.
Following a decade of sustained growth in development assistance for health, new data suggests that global health financing has entered a period of 'no-growth', attributable in large part to the ongoing global economic crisis [ 1].
Foreign-policy considerations underlie much of the remarkable growth in development assistance for health, from rising concerns about the national security and economic implications of health disparities to the perception of health assistance as an important "soft power" tool, to shifting domestic political perceptions of global health issues (33, 34).
We would like to thank Xing Wang (School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia) for technical assistance with plant growth and for tissue collection and Hans Lambers (School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia) for critical comments on the manuscript.
We thank Dr. Rod Wing, University of Arizona, for providing the initial plant stocks, Amy Hetrick, Anna Berim, Yuying Sang and Hong Yang at WSU for assistance with plant growth, tissue collection and cytological analysis, and Ryan Kim and Robin Kramer at NCGR for assistance with sequencing.
We thank Steve Hope for sequencing, Lyndon Tuck for growth of plants, Xiaohong Tang for assistance with ethylene gas measurements and Se Sevgi Öden and Tim Willems for assistance with hormone measurements.
The four year fiscal plan, in part dictated by the IMF and the EU in return for financial assistance, which targeted growth as high as 3.25% in 2012 failed to calm markets concerned that the future of the decade-old euro is at stake.
