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 …

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital … through lower accumulation of physical capital. Our results indicate that the negative growth effects of commodity terms of …

with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports …

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

optimizing model in which the process of capital accumulation entails adjustment costs. The analysis demonstrates that along an … results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …