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Who benefits from the procurement financed by Multilateral Development Banks?

We use a gravity model to inquire about the factors that influence the amount of public procurement awarded by developing countries with funding from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), based on 169 000 contracts. We reach four main conclusions. First, procurement disproportionately benefits firms of low- and middle-income countries and not those of MDBs' larger shareholders. Second, firms of upper-middle-in...

Who benefits from the procurement financed by multilateral development banks?

We use a gravity model to inquire about the factors that influence the amount of public procurement awarded by developing countries with funding from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), based on 169 000 contracts. We reach four main conclusions. First, procurement disproportionately benefits firms of low- and middle-income countries and not those of MDBs' larger shareholders. Second, firms of uppermiddle- in...

A framework for the management of research and innovation projects in academic ...

The contemporary complex settings under which research and innovation (R&I) activities are executed in academic institutions calls for the definition of suitable management and administration approaches. To this end, (1) the existing literature on the management of R&I projects in the academia is reviewed; (2) major specificities of R&I projects are discussed; (3) recent trends in project management are address...

Who benefits from the procurement financed by Multilateral Development Banks?

The International Financial Institutions : An Ajar Door to the External Financi...

While two of the largest International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in the world, namely, the Islamic Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, still finance or are planning to finance infrastructure projects in Iran, other two of the largest IFIs, namely, the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), have been vetoing any financing or participation of Iran in its governance, ...

Ready or not? The ultimate push of Timor-Leste to join ASEAN

A persistent concern raised by member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is that Timor-Leste’s readiness for membership is not enough, as Dili, the smallest economy in Southeast Asia, may not be able to sign and implement key commitments, nor to participate in all ASEAN institutions and work programmes. Since its formal request for membership in 2011, Timor-Leste has recently stepped ...

Labour content of international trade in intermediates : the case of Portugal

This paper addresses the job content with regards to Portugal’s participation in the international fragmentation of production. Labour is considered both at the overall level and also by skills (high-skill, medium-skill, and low-skill). The assessment makes use of the World Input Output Database complemented by the Socio Economic Accounts for labour skill-types. The period analysed is the longest possible, bear...

Trade potential revisited: a panel data analysis for Zimbabwe

We note that previous results on trade potential based on a panel data set may be biased and propose to perform these estimates with the adequate Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood method, with conclusions based on confidence intervals estimated with the Delta method. This methodology is used to evaluate Zimbabwe export potential in a period characterized by strong restrictions on trade, based on the elasticity ...

Labour content of international trade in intermediates : the case of Portugal

This paper addresses the relation between international trade and employment in Portugal with regard to the labour content of trade in intermediates. It considers both the overall level of employment and labour disaggregated by skills (high-skill, medium-skill and low-skill). The assessment makes use of the newly developed internationally linked inputoutput (IO) database named World Input-Output Database (WIOD)...

Foreign direct investment determinants revisited in the context of global value...

In this paper, we aim at contributing to the new field of research that intends to bring up-to-date the tools and statistics currently used to look to the current reality given by Global Value Chains (GVC) in international trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Namely, we make use of the most recent data published by the World Input-Output Database to suggest indicators to measure the participation and net ...