Sentence examples for focal countries from inspiring English sources

Each of 28 economical developed and developing nations is scored for the level of the national cultures for each of six focal countries.

Furthermore, the emergence of costing practices in the focal countries of this chapter reveals extensive reliance on the notion of public good rather than on the idea of profit.

In contrast to the relatively competitive settings that witnessed the emergence of cost systems in Anglo-American settings, the focal countries of this chapter featured inter alia the imposing role of religious and social philosophers' ideas on society as well as distinctive degrees of state intervention in the economy.

How should development partners prioritise focal countries considering vastly different prospects even among the 63 study countries?

We envisaged that practical knowledge of the focal countries would facilitate access to hard-to-reach but theoretically relevant groups and data.

They facilitate a critical examination of the ways in which our focal countries are responding to their chronic disease burden in 'multi-faceted and multi-institutional' ways.

Additionally, Glas and Jehangir ([2013]) proposed using a Lagrange multiplier (LM) test to identify poorly fitting (polytomous) background items where one country serves as the reference country and all other countries are pooled together to serve as the focal country.

I then present a two-part research framework designed to first help identify a specific liability of foreignness in a focal country, and then help identify factors that minimize the effects of that specific liabilities of foreignness.

The International Waters IWW) Focal Area of the Global Environment Facility GEFF) aims to improve cooperation among countries in governance of transboundary water systems.

Although their infections may be partially explained by exposure to persons from disease-endemic countries, focal areas of where the complete transmission cycle is maintained (i.e., there are infected pigs and humans) are possible.

The country analyses are conducted by teams of national experts in collaboration with UNICEF country focal points, and include participatory mechanisms to engage with multiple stakeholders at the country level.