This Selected Issues paper assesses the youth unemployment problem in advanced European economies, especially the euro … area. Youth unemployment rates increased sharply in the euro area after the crisis. Much of these increases can be … explained by output dynamics and the greater sensitivity of youth unemployment to economic activity compared with adult …

dividend of a rapidly expanding labor force is fading and further structural declines in unemployment are likely to be limited … implementation of the infrastructure investment program, higher domestic saving, and structural reforms. …

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

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 …

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy and other macro-economic variables on the ratio of private investment … econometric evidence indicates that the rate of private investment is positively related to the real growth rate of GDP, public … sector investment, and to a lesser extent the level of per capita GDP, while it is negatively related to domestic inflation …

While there is a substantial body of literature on the effects of “debt overhang” on investment in heavily … of foreign debt acts as a disincentive to private investment in the specific case of the Philippines. The empirical … reduction (such as the one completed through the buyback operation in early 1990) would increase investment demand by something …