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When Does Capacity Development Achieve Good Outcomes? Evidence from the IMF Results-Based Management Data

Bassanetti, Antonio - 2022

Capacity development is one of the IMF’s core activities. Its impact is monitored through a Results-Based Management framework. Using for the first time the resulting dataset, the paper investigates how the likelihood of achieving targeted outcomes correlates with macroeconomic conditions and...

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Critical Evaluation of Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects in Asia

Fujimura, Manabu; Adhikari, Ramesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

framework and criteria to evaluate them. The criteria identify additionalities and externalities specific to cross …

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EU Funded Projects: from Financial to Economic Analysis

RADU, Andreea Lorena; DIMITRIU, Maria CARACOTA - In: Economia. Seria Management 14 (2011) 1, pp. 156-176

Investment projects represent the basis of economic and social development of our country. The investment is a cost that will most influence the future, but it is necessary that this influence should be not only positive, but also should exceed the investment efforts. There could be different...

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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020

-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …

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Space and Knowledge Spillovers in European Regions

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Usually, the diffusion of a non-rival market knowledge externality - called a Knowledge Spillover (KS) - is related to geographical proximity. In this paper we explore the channels through which knowledge spreads. Compared with earlier work on KS measures, this study makes a step forward by...

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The Impact of Regional Absorptive Capacity on Spatial Knowledge Spillovers

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper led to an article in Applied Economics (2012). Volume 44, issue 11, pages 1363-1374. We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but...

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Recherche et développement, diffusion, adoption et croissance de la productivité : cas du secteur manufacturier tunisien

Samet, Kaies; Chaabane, Abdelkader - In: Mondes en développement n° 151 (2010) 3, pp. 99-112

</titre> <alinea/> This article generally examines the relationship between R&D and economic growth taking as an example of application the case of Tunisia. The results at the level of manufacturing industry sector have shown that Tunisia is able to benefit from the spillovers of R&D through the North-South...

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Catching up of Emerging Economies: The Role of Capital Goods Imports, FDI Inflows, Domestic Investment and Absorptive Capacity

Glas, Alexander; Hübler, Michael; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels through which major emerging economies (BRICs, i.e., Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China) could catch up with advanced source countries in terms of total factor...

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Absorptive capacity and structural congruence: the binding constraints on the acquisition of technology--an analytical survey of the underlying issues

Das, Gouranga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Inextricable links between international trade, growth and role of knowledge-creation are well-established in the economics literature. The issues of creation of technology, its diffusion and actual adoption have been discussed on both theoretical and empirical planes. Effective assimilation of...

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International R&D spillovers, absorptive capacity and relative backwardness: a panel smooth transition regression model

Fracasso, Andrea; Marzetti, Giuseppe Vittucci - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2012

We investigate how the country’s absorptive capacity and relative backwardness affect the impact of international R&D spillovers on domestic Total Factor Productivity (TFP). To account for nonlinearities, we adopt a Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) approach, where the country’s...

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