By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …

suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …

recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired …

. In contrast, we do not find evidence that improved production processes and technology upgrading cause the positive …