, owing to limited time series of the available data. This paper presents an analysis of investment in Poland based on an … underexplored sectoral data set. The determinants of investment are found to include lagged investment, lead production, relative … unit labor costs, EU demand, corporate profitability, and greenfield FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows. Dynamic in …

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …

East African Community (EAC) countries decide to pursue a coordinated approach to investment incentives, one possible … solution would be to agree on a Code of Conduct for Investment Incentives and Company Income Taxation. A transparent tax system …

This Selected Issues paper examines the driving factors for the broad movements of investment over the past decade in … Poland. After booming for half a decade, Poland’s investment plummeted during 2001–03 and has recovered only marginally … since then. The paper provides a historical perspective on the evolution of economywide and sectoral investment in Poland …

The study on selected issues first focuses on business fixed investment, then analyzes the profitability of Germanyâ … weak U.S. growth has had a significant independent impact on investment. …

large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic … analysis underscores the importance of relying on stability and a broad-based reform effort to encourage foreign investment in …

Investment-to-GDP ratios across the Caribbean tend to be relatively high. In many countries, these ratios have been … trending higher since the mid-1990s, largely reflecting public investment and foreign direct investment. Private domestic … investors have been less prominent. This may be one reason why such high investment has delivered Caribbean growth rates below …