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 ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has tasked the ad hoc infrastructure committee of the Economy and Development (ED) Council to fix the “absorptive capacity” issues now dragging down infrastructure ...

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 researchers have successfully fabricated mechanical metamaterials with ultra-high energy absorption capacity using ion track technology. The results were published in Nature Communications as ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...