This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country’s perspective. The framework is one in which … this framework, the paper shows that productive investment may increase or decrease the bargaining power of the debtor …

Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …

In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international … the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a ""rest of the world …

This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …

This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …

among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …

This paper examines some factors that may have accounted for the investment and growth performance of Ghana during the …