classification: Keywords: business development project, factor, cluster … the project portfolio of business development services of the Inter-American Development Bank between 1995 and 2002. JEL …

surveying the extant literature on diffusion indexes. We then outline a number of approaches to the selection of factor proxies … approach to factor proxy selection is examined via a small Monte Carlo experiment, where evidence supporting our proposed … our main empirical findings is that our smoothed approaches to factor proxy selection appear to yield predictions that are …

factor proxies selected from amongst 132 macroeconomic and financial time series, using the diffusion index methodology of … Stock and Watson (2002a,b) and the factor proxy methodology of Bai and Ng (2006a,b) and Armah and Swanson (2010). The …

of optimisation to maintain target factor loading while minimising non-target factor exposures. We test this methodology …

When managing any commercial, professional, scientific, or other project, it is necessary to plan all segments to … creating project reports are unthinkable without computer programs. The development of project management programs simplifies … this work, allowing project team members to focus on project tasks, develop plans and strategies, and assess risk. In …

weaknesses. Research conducted by international project management communities such as Software Engineering Institute (SEI …), Project Management Institute (PMI), International Project Management Association (IPMA), Office of Government Commerce (OGC … likely to achieve their planned project goals than those that do not identify and standardize their best management practices …

Nowadays, projects are a common mean of organizing activities in all fields, aspects concerning project management … representing a current research topic. While people are considered the most valuable asset of an organisation, project managers can … research aims to identify the profile of an ideal project manager, by presenting an overview of studies regarding the profile …

the research aim to determine the proportions of the economic, social and environmental criteria within the project …