Achieving the MDGs - a note
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Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs
The ability of low-income countries to productively absorb large amounts of external assistance is a central issue for efforts to scale-up aid. This paper examines absorptive capacity in the context of MDG-based development programmes in low-income countries. It first defines absorptive capacity, and proposes a framework for measuring it. Applying a dynamic computable general equilibrium model ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ethiopian Journal of Economics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1993-3681
DOI: 10.4314/eje.v18i1.59934