PAKISTAN has been less than successful in accessing international climate finance, and even less in implementing the approved projects in a timely or effective manner. Most projects at the na­­tional ...

Absorptive capacity, in other words, is a byproduct of the donor-recipient relationship. An earlier study by the authors introduced a new framework for measuring absorptive capacity. This volume ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.