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World Development Report 2003 : Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World--Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
World Bank - 2012
Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today … integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year ' s World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period …, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified …
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Weakness in investment growth : causes, implications and policy responses
Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Ye, Lei; Islamaj, Ergys - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748194
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Weakness in investment growth : causes, implications and policy responses
Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Ye, Lei; Islamaj, Ergys - 2017
Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment growth. It reports four main results. First, the...
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Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2011
This paper constructs an efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series and re-examines the public capital and growth relationship for 52 developing countries. The results show that public capital is a significant contributor to economic growth. Although the estimated coefficient for the income...
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Infrastructure Capital and Economic Growth : How Well You Use it May Be More Important than How Much You Have
Hulten, Charles R. - 2010
This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the growth experience of Africa is compared with that of...
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Essays on the effects of growth, public expenditures and infrastructure investments in developing countries
Almánzar, Miguel - 2017
The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation pursues the objective by explicitly highlighting the...
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Efficiency-adjusted public capital and growth
Gupta, Sanjeev; Kangur, Alvar; Papageorgiou, Chris; … - 2011
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Property rights, place-based policies, and economic development
Wheeler, Laurel - 2019
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Infrastructure Capital and Economic Growth : How Well You Use It May Be More Important Than How Much You Have
Hulten, Charles R. - 1996
This paper shows that those low and middle income countries that use infrastructure inefficiently pay a growth penalty in the form of a much smaller benefit from infrastructure investments. The magnitude of this penalty is apparent when the growth experience of Africa is compared with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472981
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Financing Public Investment Through Foreign Aid : Consequences for Economic Growth and Welfare
Chatterjee, Santanu; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2005
The paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanism through which foreign aid affects macroeconomic performance. The authors find that the long-run impact of an aid program and the nature of the transitional dynamics it generates depend crucially on (i) the elasticity of...
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