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Investing in Public Investment: An Index of Public Investment Efficiency
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper introduces a new index that captures the institutional environment underpinning public investment management across four different stages: project appraisal, selection, implementation, and evaluation. Covering 71 countries, including 40 low-income countries, the index allows for benchmarking across regions and country groups and for nuanced ...
Dabla-Norris, Era +4 more
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Analysis of Mechanical Properties of Loess with Lime Incorporation Ratio [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2022 Taking loess as the research object, the effect of lime content on mechanical properties of loess was studied. Firstly, the basic physical parameters of loess were obtained by laboratory physical index test and improved by lime.
Wu Tiehai +3 more
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EIB Working Paper 2022/14 - The scarring effects of major economic downturns [PDF]
, 2022 "Despite the efforts of policy makers to tackle recessions as they happen, there is ample evidence that major economic downturns produce lasting negative effects on real GDP, pointing to the existence of “economic scarring”.
European Investment Bank
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Regulation and Investment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 use newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries to provide evidence that regulatory reform of product markets is associated with an increase in investment. A component of reform that plays a very important role is entry liberalization, but privatization also has a substantial effect on investment.
Silvia Ardagna +7 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background The Enhancing Nutrition and Antenatal Infection Treatment (ENAT) intervention was implemented in Ethiopia to improve newborn birth weight (BW) by strengthening the contents and quality of antenatal care (ANC), especially point-of-care testing ...
Y Mekonnen +12 more
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Support for female entrepreneurs [PDF]
, 2022 Women’s economic empowerment has improved rapidly in the last century. Today, many women are not just fully engaged in the workplace; some lead international organisations, corporations and countries.
European Investment Bank
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Radiation shielding analysis and criticality safety calculation for spent fuel transportation cask [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesChina anticipates a shortage in storage capacity for spent fuels at reactor sites for the AP1000 NPPs within the next 10 to 20 years. We proposed a conceptual design for a transportation cask capable of loading 21 spent fuel assemblies in AP1000 reactors
Chen Xiaosong +3 more
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EIB Complaints Mechanism Report 2020 [PDF]
, 2021 Any concerns about an EIB Group activity or project? The Complaints Mechanism listens to citizens and ensures their voice can be heard. Have a look at its Activity Report for 2020.
European Investment Bank
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Investment and Instability [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998 Although recent research has repeatedly found a negative association between investment and socio-political instability (SPI), the existence and direction of causality between these two variables has not yet been investigated. We construct an index of SPI for non-overlapping five-year periods between 1960 and 1995 for a sample of 98 developing ...
Nauro F. Campos +3 more
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Innovative Paths and Strategies for Property Management in the Context of Dual-Carbon Strategy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 In the context of China’s strategy to promote carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the construction industry has come under the spotlight for its higher carbon emissions.
Su Litao +8 more
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