
Rethinking Absorptive Capacity
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Kathryn Mixon is program coordinator and research assistant with the Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation at CSIS.
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- Rethinking Absorptive Capacity
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Executive Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Concept and Its Analogues
- Early Conceptualizations
- Economic Growth and Capital Absorption
- Prerequisites to Absorption
- From Poverty Reduction to Structural Adjustment
- Ongoing Debates in International Development
- Absorptive Capacity for Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation
- Ecological Systems, Resilience, and Adaptive Capacity
- 3. Absorptive Capacity as Adaptive Capacity
- Adaptive Capacity
- Theory of Change
- The MAC Framework
- Inputs: What does the intervention provide?
- Input Prerequisites: What else is required to produce the outputs?
- Outputs: What does the intervention produce? (How are the inputs used?)
- Output Prerequisites: What else is required to generate the outcomes?
- Outcomes: What does the intervention change? (How are the outputs used?)
- Donor Capacity: How well can donors design locally appropriate interventions?
- Applying the Framework
- 4. Afghanistan: National Police Training Programs
- Intended Outcomes
- Intervention Design
- Intended Outputs
- Promised Inputs
- Prerequisite Structure
- Output Prerequisites
- Input Prerequisites
- Actual Outcome
- Donor Capacity
- 5. Concluding Remarks
- About the Authors
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