classification: Keywords: business development project, factor, cluster … the project portfolio of business development services of the Inter-American Development Bank between 1995 and 2002. JEL …

surveying the extant literature on diffusion indexes. We then outline a number of approaches to the selection of factor proxies … approach to factor proxy selection is examined via a small Monte Carlo experiment, where evidence supporting our proposed … our main empirical findings is that our smoothed approaches to factor proxy selection appear to yield predictions that are …

factor proxies selected from amongst 132 macroeconomic and financial time series, using the diffusion index methodology of … Stock and Watson (2002a,b) and the factor proxy methodology of Bai and Ng (2006a,b) and Armah and Swanson (2010). The …

of optimisation to maintain target factor loading while minimising non-target factor exposures. We test this methodology …

-operation project 10 years ago, and also functions today including Vienna and other Austrian provinces such as Lower Austria and …

The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of project organisational culture in Slovenian enterprises and the … impact of that culture on team motivation and project execution compared with monetary rewards for finalising projects in … time and within budget. The research showed a high level of project organisational culture and that only one-third of …

) project implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Mozambique's Manica province and funded through the European Union …. Overall, the project is expected to reach around 44,640 individuals through the interpersonal communication component and 379 …