This paper proposes an evaluation of the main empirical approaches used in the literature to estimate the productive contribution of public capital stock to private factors productivity and growth. Our analysis is based on the replication of these approaches on pseudo samples generated using a...

In many poor countries, the problem is not that governments do not invest, but that these investments do not create productive capital. So, the cost of public investments does not correspond to the value of the capital stocks. In this paper, we propose an original non parametric approach to...

The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...