covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income …Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions … distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both quality and quantity, promotes income equality, while the link between …

reliance on donor aid, and limited physical infrastructure and human capital. Policy choices to address some of these …

around 3¼ percent, but growth could reach 4-5 percent with strong pro-active policies including (i) improving investment and … savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education …

. While strengthening the management of the public sector and governance, the GoL is increasing public investment to develop … physical and social infrastructure and promote human resources. The promotion of the private sector is receiving greater …

sustained and associated costs minimized. Besides further investments in infrastructure, Hong Kong SAR's role as a producers … coordination to further promote trade and investment and developing a common human skills base with the PRD. Regional cooperation …

uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. …. 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 …

We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making … explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy … external balance. Well-executed high-yielding public investment programs can substantially raise output and consumption and be …

direct investment. Supporting structural measures focus on tax reform, the control of public enterprise borrowing, and the …

panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study …

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper …