Then, in the eighties, Ford began to shift its focus from academic institutes and economic development to social justice, and from financing government programs to funding N.G.O.s.
In 2009, six member countries of the "Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health (PEROSH)", a joint collaboration of European institutes on research and development in occupational safety and health, formed a project group on "Survey development and cross culture methodology": Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Germany.
Qin An, a cyber-security expert from the China institute for innovation and development strategy, said Chen's appointment should be "welcomed and encouraged".
Geoff Armstrong, director general of the chartered institute of personnel and development, concludes that "companies will benefit if they understand dyslexia - it is an area in which personnel and development professionals could usefully play a leading role".
That means 30 to 50 million men will fail to find wives over the next two decades, according to Prof Li Shuzhuo of the institute for population and development studies at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Yet when the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, a small think-tank, wanted money to study demography and its policy implications, German foundations yawned; America's Hewlett Foundation finally stepped in.Very gradually, think-tanks are becoming a factor in Germany's public policy.
The Berlin Institute for Population and Development proposes that 10% of the women born in the 1960s, now aged 35 to 45, should have an extra child in order to strengthen the number of wage-earners who will be needed to support their generation in retirement.Both former West Germans and East Germans have been accustomed to a high level of social security and health care.
Dr. Reiner Klingholz, the director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, described the migrants from Southern Europe to Germany as generally more qualified than the domestic population [34].
I urge Western governments, public-opinion makers, NGOs and development institutes to follow closely the new emphasis put by the Arab League on issues of development in the Arab World with a view to launching a "partnership in development".
The rationale behind the development was to produce a device capable of many functions but at an acceptable cost so as to make the various techniques available to a wide range of research and development institutes.
