The report is part of the continued investigation on the public-private investment relationship, and its focus for this … year is on the quality of public investment, its interaction with corruption, and the resulting impact on private … investment. The first chapter provides statistics on trends in private, and public fixed investment in sixty three developing …

This discussion paper examines in its first part, the role of private investment in economic growth. While theoretical … growth models developed in the economics literature, make no distinction between private, and public components of investment …, there is an emerging appreciation that private investment is more efficient, and productive tan public investment. Results …

This is the tenth annual edition of "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries." To mark this event, this … industrial countries for comparison). The first part of this report documents trends in private and public fixed investment. The … obstacles to doing business and their relationship to levels of private investment. A few factors emerge as being of particular …

Private investment in developing countries continued its upward trend in 1996, the most recent year for which data … exist, on an unweighted average basis. Public investment rates continued a decline that began in the early 1980s. The … largest increases in private investment between 1995 and 1996 occurred in Malawi, Mauritania, Benin, Papua New Guinea, and …

This short paper, in its eighth edition, provides private and public investment data through 1995. Although the growing … privatization. This report addresses that issue briefly, exploring the impact of privatization on private fixed investment. As a … foreign investors. Data on investment commitments stemming from privatization are also presented. The final section offers …

This is the seventh annual edition of "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries", a unique data source. In … updates analysis of the determinants of private investment …

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …