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

results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …

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 …

. While some countries need to raise consumption, several need to raise investment or reorient it from tradable to nontradable … sectors. These changes in investment could be facilitated by financial reforms that enhance domestically oriented firmsâ … uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. …

financial health—and investment in Israel, using dynamic panel data techniques. The results suggest that weak balance sheets … may well have contributed to the investment decline of recent years. The impact of financial variables on investment is … corporate investment increases during real downturns or following an equity market bust. …

to have relatively high effective tax rates on equity-financed investment. The analysis suggests that both countries …