of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the … differences in saving and investment propensities …

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

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working …

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 …

growth-accounting framework are outlined. The main constraints to growth and private investment and current policy initiative … to promote broad-based growth and private investment are analyzed. The various methods employed suggest that there is …