Since the 1970's, a large number of individual field studies of diverse irrigation systems have been completed in Nepal. Some of these studies were undertaken by masters or doctoral students and are based on extensive periods of time in the field. Others were written on the basis of shorter periods in the field: rapid rural appraisals, brief reports, and field-site visits by expatriate advisors...

Anecdotal and published information suggest a low incidence and prevalence of type 1 diabetes in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Incidence and prevalence were followed prospectively from July 1996, using the PNG Paediatric Surveillance Unit (PSU). No children were receiving insulin in Papua New Guinea at the start of the period. Over the next 4.5 years, 8 cases were reported--an annual incidence of 0.0...

Expatriate volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, work in a country where many of their fellow expatriates are paid considerably more than they are. Such volunteers often find that the financial disparities affect the perceptions that people have of them. This paper explores the self-perceptions of volunteers working with Voluntary Service Overseas in Phnom Penh, and sets these perceptions within ...

Introduction The unique Tanzania Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT) for the English speaking countries in Africa, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1991. The German Technical Co-operation Agency (GTZ) laid the foundation stone of this remarkable development in Orthopaedic Technology on the 26th August, 1981 with the arrival of the first two expatriate teachers. The decision of the M...

cultural, social, political, and regulatory contexts as they expand their global presence. Of the 900 multinational enterprises (MNEs) surveyed in DDI and The Conference Board’s Global Leadership Forecast 2014|2015, 52 percent planned on expanding their global operations over the next three years, yet only a paltry 16 percent of these organizations reported having sufficient ready leaders to fi...

Andrew Murray is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of the Bauer Centre for Genomics Research at Harvard University. He grew up in Britain as an expatriate American, received his BA from Cambridge University and then moved to the US to do a PhD at Harvard before spending 13 years at the University of California, San Francisco. He has worked on the cell division cycle, with...

This article investigates the role of expatriate managers in multinational companies. We discuss three key organisational functions of expatriation: position filling, management development and organisation development. In the last function, international transfers are used as an informal coordination and control strategy. The article explores this role of international transfers in detail and ...

“Mycobacterium canettii,” an opportunistic human pathogen living in an unknown environmental reservoir, is the progenitor species from which Mycobacterium tuberculosis emerged. Since its discovery in 1969, most of the ≈70 known M. canettii strains were isolated in the Republic of Djibouti, frequently from expatriate children and adults. We show here, by whole-genome sequencing, that most strain...

It has been determined that expatriate compensation is a difficult problem to address, and as result, expats' engagement their policies do have direct relationship. On the other hand, empirical research on pay packages drivers limited offers little guidance for compensation-related decisions. In light of this, study's primary purpose assess Indian expats in stated factors compensation. The seco...