Foreign Projects Research Articles

Evaluation of private investment performance

In Ethiopia, there has been various economic and political reforms for the last ten years which can motivate private investors. Even though, some improvements have been registered as a result of such reforms, the performance of private sectors became low. This study conducted to evaluate the performances of private investment in regional distribution, sector contribution, and ownership structure and employment creation. The result shows that Most of private investment projects are concentrated around Addis Ababa, with manufacturing and service sectors. In Ethiopia, foreign private projects are capital incentive while Domestic private projects have higher share in employment creation. Emerging regions in the country exhibited small number of private projects as compared to other regions. Identified variables for the study includes private investment, inflation rate, abroad money supply, GDP per capital, interest rate, exchange rate, public investment, and external debt. To enhance the analysis, Econometrics model with OLS using multiple regression was applied. The result shows that GDP per-capital, and external debt have significant positive long run effect on private investment, while broad money supply and average exchange rate have negative long run effect. Broad money supply, GDP per-capital, and external debt have significant short run effect.

On the Criteria for Evaluating an Expert's Opinion and Forensic Methods by Participants in the Legal Proceedings

The issues of assessing the reliability of experts’ opinions are common for Russian and Anglo-Saxon legal proceedings. In the Russian legislation there are no legal norms or regulated rules defining this procedure. At the same time, in the USA there is Rule 702 “Expert Witness Testimony” of the Federal Code of Evidence which establishes four criteria that courts should consider when assessing the admissibility of the testimony of a forensic expert. Besides, based on court decisions, Fry and Daubert standards have been adopted. They determine criteria for methods used in conducting forensic examination in the United States. The article analyzes and evaluates the compliance of expert methods applied in Russia with the Fry and Daubert standards. The analysis shows that not all methods meet the criteria of Daubert standard. In particular, the structures of the so-called subjective methods do not provide calculations of a known or potential error rate as well as a mechanism for monitoring the conduct of various stages of a study. The article also discusses other foreign projects aimed at minimizing erroneous conclusions and reforming the system of forensic examination: the Innocence project, reports prepared by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS report) and the US Presidential Council for Science and Technology (PCAST report). The authors believe that it is essential for the Russian legislation to develop criteria for evaluating experts’ opinions, research methods and scientific validity of the obtained results as well as the to formulate the appropriate norms.

Principles of landscape urbanism in the development of the floodplain territories of Samara

The article deals with the problems of identifying the optimal ways to develop the floodplain territories of megalopolises that meet the requirements of nature protection and the formation of a full-fledged environment. The paper provides positive examples of the regeneration of urban and suburban public spaces in domestic and foreign projects. The principles of landscape urbanism and the strategy for the development and regeneration of landscape-recreational territories are covered on the example of the floodplain territories of Samara. The features of the formation of a functional architectural and planning structure of coastal zones in specific conditions of floodplain landscapes are presented. Methods of delicate introduction into the natural environment without disturbing the existing ecological balance with the use of design technologies are shown.

“The rising soft power”: An educational foreign exchange and cooperation policy conceptual framework in China

This study aims to explore the educational foreign exchange and cooperation policy conceptual framework in China’s education system from a historical policy retrospective analysis. Since reform and opening-up, China has issued a total of 151 pieces of educational foreign exchange and cooperation policy documents, including the cultural education policy, the technical educational policy, the overseas educational policy, and the foreign student policy. It is suggested that we need to carry out capacity building and improve the quality of education exchanges and cooperation with other countries; expand forms and paths and expand educational exchange and cooperation resources and optimize the project system and support education exchange and cooperation with foreign countries; enhance the strength of education and enhancing the influence of education on foreign exchange and cooperation. In conclusion, we need build a guaranteed system for educational exchange and cooperation with foreign countries. We will gradually lift the authority of foreign exchange and cooperation projects in education by category, promote the reform of qualification identification and management of institutions opening to the outside world in education, and improve the facilitation and speed of the management and service of opening to the outside world in education.

Lately, I have been talking with our ancestors

This ‘letter to my children’ is part of the author’s book in progress Algerian Letters: The Jewelers of the Ummah. Through her engagement with different addressees (her ancestors and children, scholars, political theorists and law-makers active in Algeria, France, and Palestine) and reflecting on the history of her paternal family life in Algeria, she questions the seemingly irreversible nature of the process through which, in less than a century, an offspring of an indigenous Algerian Jew could no longer find it possible to say ‘I’m Algerian.’ Her assumption is that the French colonization of Algeria in 1830, and forcing the Jews who lived there to become French citizens in 1870, marked the destruction of their world. Is this process reversible? What would such a reversal require? More than just a personal reckoning, family history, or an implied return, this inquiry interrogates the structures of colonial dispossession, charting processes of world-loss and asking what kind of repair – that is increasingly called ‘decolonization’ – is possible. Beyond the physical and emotional world loss of the Arab–Berber–Jews of North Africa, this series of letters prompted her inquiry into the role of both the colonizing powers in North Africa and the colonial (Israel) and post-colonial (France) nation-states and into how citizenship operates in preparing groups of people to detach themselves from objects to which they are attached and in which they are invested, and to be ready for migration and assimilation in a foreign, supposedly superior, culture and emancipation project.

Science Transfer Adhering to the Science-Technology Business Model in Vietnam National University, Hanoi: Reality and Prospects

Science and technology transfer in Vietnam is currently divided into three types, including domestic science and technology transfer, science and technology transfer through foreign investment projects, and technology transfer through importing machinery and equipment. In which, domestic science and technology transfer mainly takes place among institutes, universities and research institutions for enterprises. However, this transition is yet to achieve the desired speed, and at the same time, it is local and narrow in scope. In Vietnam’s universities, technology transfer activities are mostly acknowledged through the science and technology enterprise model. The following article focuses on presenting science and technology transfer activities through the science and technology business model in Vietnam National University, Hanoi. In addition to the introduction, literature review, as well as the presentation of research methods, the article highlights the clarification of the status of science and technology transfer activities, along with bringing about several practical assessments and recommendations in the near future.

The ‘consultas populares’ in Colombia: restrictions on mechanisms for citizen participation in foreign extractive projects from the perspective of the capitalocene

ABSTRACT This article discusses from the perspective of the capitalocene how judicial decisions have limited legal mechanisms utilized by local communities as emancipatory tools. It focuses on the case of consultas populares (popular consultations) using the consultation in Cumaral, Colombia, to illustrate the argument. These judicial decisions have favoured a few transnational actors who pursue a hegemonic view of development. These actors are aligned with the logic of commodity speculation in financial markets. The restrictive interpretation of popular consultations has limited the communities’ participation, who suffer most directly from the consequences of large-scale investment and ‘development’ projects. These judicial decisions also exert control over territories, disregard local views of development, and contribute to worsening the current climate crisis.

Local Politics and Fluctuating Engagement with China: Analysing the Belt and Road Initiative in Maritime Southeast Asia

Abstract The past few years have witnessed that the success (or failure) of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) depends to a large extent upon engagement with and responses from recipient countries. The article explores the impact of Southeast Asian countries’ domestic socio-political factors on their foreign policymaking and BRI projects in Southeast Asia. Based on comparative political sociology, the article develops a conceptual typology of foreign policymaking and an explanatory typology of socio-political risks, both of which are further applied to studying the socio-political risks that BRI projects entail in the four maritime Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. The empirical study suggests that the Philippines’ ‘populist’ type of foreign policymaking creates the highest level of risks—both political and societal—for BRI projects and that Singapore’s ‘procedural’ type produces the lowest. Malaysia’s ‘arbitrary’ type and Indonesia’s ‘democratic’ type, meanwhile, generate medium-level political or societal risks. These findings have important policy implications for Chinese-funded overseas projects.

Regional headquarters and foreign direct investment

AbstractHeadquarters (HQs) provide a wide range of services, playing a fundamental role in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). We use the structural gravity equation to investigate the effect of regional HQs on three dimensions of FDI (number of foreign projects, capital investment, and jobs) at the country‐pair‐sector level. Furthermore, we explore two underlying mechanisms that help explain this relationship: financial constraints and informational costs and uncertainty. We find a positive effect of regional HQs on FDI, as well as intercountry and intersector spillovers. Our results are robust, accounting for HQ intensity, domestic investment, and endogeneity tests.

Innovations in Primary Education: Neuropsychological Aspect

The article is devoted to the influence of neuropsychology on the modern student. The concepts of "neuropsychology" and "neuropsychological research", research and publications of domestic and foreign scientists on the development of neuropsychology and the use of methods that improve the work of the right and left hemispheres of the brain are considered in the article. The scientific potential of neuropsychology is indicated. Attention is drawn to the views of scientists who studied the neuropsychology of childhood. It has been found that there are many more books and periodicals in foreign literature that contain information on neuropsychology. A foreign project aimed at studying the brain is covered. It is emphasized that in modern educational institutions in Spain, teachers pay special attention to the neuropsychological characteristics of each child. Emphasis is placed on the difficulties of primary school children who need neuropsychological care. The focus is on the features of functional blocks of the brain and their mutual development. Emphasis is placed on the need to use health-preserving and play technologies in the organization of the educational process for teachers working on the Concept of the "New Ukrainian School". The effectiveness of kinesiological exercises for brain function, which contribute to the harmonious development of personality, has been proven. The significance of moving activities for the body of a child of primary school age is revealed. The powerful influence of means of musical and fine arts which help to develop visual perception, difficult spatial abilities, visual attention, memory, verbal and visual-motor skills on overcoming of neuropsychological frustration is proved. A block of neuropsychological exercises to activate the brain is presented. Samples of corrective exercises are highlighted: breathing exercises, massage, oculomotor exercises.

Evaluation and Influencing Factors of China’s Agricultural Productivity from the Perspective of Environmental Constraints

Based on provincial panel data for the past 15 years in China, the SBM-ML index method was used to measure agricultural productivity under the environmental-constraint perspective with agricultural surface source pollution as the non-desired output. A dynamic panel regression model was used to empirically analyze the factors influencing agricultural productivity to provide a reference for formulating policies to alleviate the conflict between economic development and environmental pollution. The results show that the green total factor productivity of Chinese agriculture exhibits a slow, incremental trend year by year. The growth of green total factor productivity in agriculture mainly comes from the increase in the rate of green technological progress. In terms of geographical disparity, the eastern, central, and western regions show a high-to-low gradient of agricultural green total factor productivity. Agricultural green total factor productivity showed a significant positive spatial correlation in some years. As for the influencing factors, foreign trade in agricultural products is conducive to enhancing green total factor productivity in agriculture, whereas foreign direct investment in agriculture and agricultural technology input inhibit the growth of green total factor productivity in agriculture. This research also found a significant U-shaped relationship between environmental management inputs and green total factor productivity in agriculture. Accordingly, suggestions are provided to optimize the international trade structure of agricultural products, selectively introduce high-quality green foreign investment projects, drive the efficiency of R&D investment through digital technology, and increase investment in special funds for agricultural pollution control.

Network analysis regarding international organisations and donors of humanitarian aid

This study aims to evaluate the status of the partnerships with important international organizations that Korea employs in operating its foreign aid projects from a humanitarian point of view. On the basis of this information, Korea intends to seek ways of effectively supporting underdeveloped countries through future co-operation with these organizations. The main international organizations analyzed are the World Food Programmer (WFP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the (United Nations) Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). These international organizations support underdeveloped countries through co-operative relationships not only with Korea but also with important donor countries of the OECD. This study focuses on establishing the factors that Korea needs to consider when providing humanitarian aid in the future to underdeveloped countries via such international organizations.

Research on the Optimization Strategy of Project Management on Sino Foreign Cooperative Education in Colleges

Sino foreign cooperative education project is one of the educational forms of Sino foreign cooperative education. As an important part of the development of higher education, the Sino foreign cooperative education project of higher education is of positive significance for the complementary advantages of resources, and the mutual benefit and win-win situation of national educational resources. This paper, taking the management optimization of Sino foreign cooperation education projects in Colleges as starting point and foothold, reckons that the optimization strategy of the management of Sino foreign cooperation education projects in Colleges mainly includes three points: first, perform reasonable positioning; Second, establish and perfect management and operation methods; Third, improve the quality of teaching.

The extreme left and foreign policy: The “Altermondialist project” by J.-L. Mélenchon

The constant presence of the extreme left in media space and its active political role in the life of modern France contribute to the development and presentation of its own foreign policy project to voters. One of its brightest representatives is the “La France insoumise” movement and its leader J.-L. Mélenchon, author of several books, mastermind of the Internet platform and personal blog, and presidential candidate. The program of “La France insoumise” is mainly addressed to domestic political problems. However, it contains analyses and proposals about the most relevant aspects of foreign policy, combined under the conditional name “altermondialist project.” In the foreign policy program of “La France insoumise,” three important aspects can be distinguished, which this article explores: attitudes to the functioning and basic principles of the European Union, geopolitics, and the place of France in the modern world, “political Francophonie.” Attention to these problems stems from the specifics of left-wing political culture, the traditional attention of the left to the problems of European integration, colonialism, democracy, and human rights. At the same time, in Mélenchon’s program we see references from the Gaullist heritage and foreign policy experience of the Fifth Republic. Mélenchon’s “altermondialism” does not imply the renunciation of national sovereignty or the nation-state, just as it recognizes the inevitability of globalization. In the spirit of the extreme left, he criticizes its neoliberal version, offering his own version of world reconstruction. The published policy documents and brochures of “La France insoumise,” as well as interviews and reflections of its leader, allow us to build a complete picture of an alternative foreign policy program of the extreme left, which was originally presented at the presidential elections in 2012 and 2017, and then, in an updated version, was prepared for the upcoming presidential elections in 2022.

ОБУЧЕНИЕ ГРАММАТИКЕ НА ОСНОВЕ ПРОБЛЕМНО-ПРОЕКТНЫХ ЗАДАНИЙ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПОЛИКУЛЬТУРНОГО СОЦИУМА (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РЕСПУБЛИКИ КАЗАХСТАН И РЕСПУБЛИКИ БАШКОРТОСТАН)

The article gives the characteristics of the current language situation in the policultural republics, where much attention is paid to foreign language education. The examples of the implementation of polylingval education are the Republic of Bashkortostan as one of the multinational constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, which are multinational in their essence and bilingualism in them is considered to be natural. Nevertheless, in both republics the contradiction between the high levels of requirements for the formation of grammatical skills imposed by the curriculum and the inability of students to freely use grammatical structures in the process of communicating real communication is obvious. To optimize the process of learning grammatical means of communicative competence, the technology of the formation of grammatical skills is proposed on the basis of the use of problem learning elements, in particular, problem-project tasks. These tasks are considered in the article as special tasks that create problem situations, during performing which students are involved in creative speech foreign project activities, the result of which is the tangible product. The problem-project approach is proposed in the article as a methodological basis for the formation of the grammatical side of communicative competence in the native, Russian and one of the foreign languages acquisition of the student. The main subject of consideration is the issues of the formation of foreign language grammatical skills of students in three-tie conditions. The authors analyze the methodology for learning foreign language grammar based on the use of problem-project tasks with a support for native, Russian and English languages. As an example, the technology of comparison of Russian, Bashkir, Kazakh, English and French proverbs and sayings is described.

Strategic Unification of Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Direct Investment Application Forms

A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a very popular method of investing overseas but different from a stock investment in a foreign company. It could be purchasing of an interest in a company by an investor located outside its borders and in most cases, governments pay special interest on them. This is a business decision to acquire a substantial stake in a foreign business or to buy it outright as to expand its operations to a new region. Embedding artificial intelligence (AI) across the business requires significant investment and a change in overall approach. It is highly constructive and productive transformation that should be planned professionally, applied systematically, and managed strategically. AI drives meaningful value to business through better decision-making and consumer-facing applications. The general perception about filling a FDI application is a cumbersome job. Some countries manage this stage very methodically and investors always give priority for them as they can commence the production/business activities within a short period. Those countries who fail to gain this competitive advantage tend to lose the FDI opportunities even if they own various other advantages of resources to attract investors. This paper attempts to evaluate the potential of embedding a strategic unification of artificial intelligence in the application forms used to fill by investors at the time of starting foreign direct investment projects.

Educational design as an intelligent foundation and creative source of prospective engineers’ professional development

The innovative nature of engineering and technical education is focused on the digital productions dynamics and is largely determined by the quality of knowledge acquired at the university. Lifelong education, continuous renewal and the production of new knowledge based on available knowledge has become a necessary requirement for the individuals competitiveness in a modern society, where information and knowledge are the main resource and driving force. The subject of the study is substantiation of the educational project role as a result of professional education, which allows us to outline ways, techniques, methods that provide prospective specialists with an adequate understanding of the real world, successful adaptation to life in an information oversaturated environment and intellectual development in the digital world. The introduction of the educational project concept in the thesaurus of pedagogy allows us to strengthen the role of knowledge in professional and personal development. The paper establishes that the essence of educational design as a pedagogical phenomenon consists in the duality of educational and professional contexts; in the indication of the procedural manifestation in the project activity of prospective engineers professional and personal qualities; in the installation of an increase in experience of a value attitude to living knowledge when developing projects for creative transformation of the technosphere. The solutions given in the study are of a research nature and can be used in other similar Russian and foreign projects, as well as implemented when creating personalized e-learning systems and online courses in the dynamics of formation and development of educational design.

Role of water bodies in the structure of open public spaces of cities (Chermyanka river)

Most of the cities standing on rivers are currently faced with the problem of the formation of near-water depressed spaces. The paper presents the results of a study of the depressive territory of the Chermyanka River section (Moscow), in which the authors took part. Based on the results of the reconnaissance survey and sociological research, the main problems of the study area were identified. Based on the analysis of successful foreign and domestic projects for the revitalization of depressed spaces, ways of solving these problems are proposed. The paper describes an option of the reorganization of the depressed territory under consideration, developed by the authors. The choice of zoning the territory of the river into green and open public spaces has been substantiated. The functional content of public spaces and communications is described, allowing them to be combined into an integral recreational complex. The new public space will allow the Bibirevo and Otradnoye districts to be linked by a pedestrian route and will provide free movement between the banks of the river.

New curriculum, existing problems: Teacher perception of the English language curriculum renewal in Vietnam

The emergence of English as a global lingua franca, coupled with the profound impact of globalisation and neoliberalism in language policy planning, has influenced the Vietnamese Government to embark on a national foreign language project, aiming to enhance the English capacity of school students. New English curricula and textbooks were developed, adhering to the principles of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). This study is an attempt to explore teacher attitude and understanding of the new curriculum and its pedagogic underpinning. Data obtained from a teacher survey (n=347) and interviews (n=16) reveal doubts and negative attitude among teachers about the feasibility of the curriculum goal. The findings also indicate that teachers had an incomplete understanding of CLT, along with a range of local challenges to the successful enactment of the new communicative curriculum. Implications are proposed in light of these findings, including the need to adapt rather adopt CLT and the prioritisation of teacher professional development, among other structural changes.

THE SITUATION OF ENGLISH TEACHERS FOSTERING ACTIVITIES AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KE SACH DISTRICT, SOC TRANG PROVINCE, VIETNAM

<p>This article aims to provide scientific, accurate and overall information on the English teachers fostering activities at secondary schools in Ke Sach district, Soc Trang province. Via the sociological survey method and direct interview, this article has informed comprehensively about the status of teachers’ quality and students’ results in learning English, English teachers’ awareness of fostering activities, implementing teaching contents under the teaching and learning foreign languages project, as well as English teachers fostering activity methods, and forms of English teachers fostering activities of educational managers. The results of the study are the basis to improve the quality of teaching and learning foreign languages for students at secondary schools in Ke Sach district, Soc Trang province.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0951/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>