Sentence examples for focal country from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

The focal countries are Zambia and Sri Lanka.

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.

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

The participants were academics and health managers (nine countries), WHO focal points (five countries), a representative of the Consortium RAS (one person), WHO Geneva representatives (two persons) and University of Geneva teachers (two representatives of the coordination team).