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 …

Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …

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

This Selected Issues paper reviews developments in health care spending in France and discusses the recent measures to … past reforms, the new measures offer a reasonable hope of containing France’s health expenditures. The paper presents a …

This Selected Issues paper addresses the question of what policy changes in France are needed under European Monetary … stabilizers in France under EMU. The main conclusions is that over the past two and a half decades, fiscal policy operated in a … clear countercyclical way in France, but this reflected essentially the functioning of automatic stabilizers …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes developments and issues in banking and financial markets in France. The paper … sequencing of financial sector modernization. The analysis concludes that, on balance, France has successfully modernized its …

This note estimates potential output for France during 1980–2010, using three distinct approaches, and discusses long … the features that hamper job growth, investment, and productivity growth. This paper analyzes the impact of Basel III …

assessment of France’s long-term fiscal position. The generational accounting framework is outlined, followed by a discussion of … its major limitations. The specific case of France, including the construction of the accounts, a discussion of key … parameters used, and the main findings are presented. The paper places France’s generational policy in an international …