This policy brief describes a new framework for measuring absorptive capacity in international development, peacebuilding, and stabilization efforts. Absorptive capacity is the form and amount of ...

We examine how trade liberalization affects South's incentive to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) in a North-South duopoly model where a low-cost North firm competes with a high-cost South ...

A major challenge of economic development is implementing projects with high economic returns toward their proper completion. If that were an easily doable activity, few countries would be in poverty.

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often leads to inefficient outcomes. This paper rationalizes this outcome looking at the ...

Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen, in his 23 August Daily Sun article, “See the Capacity Issue for What It Is and Share in ...

Frank Vibert (Director of the European Policy Forum) argues that the debate on the EU's "absorption capacity" is in fact "a diversion" from the real challenges facing Europe today. Frank Vibert ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is looking at how to improve the absorptive capacity of the different government agencies to maximize the early release of the ...

EU leaders brought in more transparency for future Council meetings and sealed 'absorption' as the new rhetoric joker on enlargement at the EU Summit. The concept of ‘absorption capacity’, which was ...

Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics 46, no. 2 (June 1998): ...