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large positive investment responses and returns to grants for a random (representative) sample of farmers, showing that …
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agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …
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may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input … fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access agricultural inputs. Cash alone increases investment by 27%, while the … joint provision of cash and the input fair increases investment by about 40%; thus, the incremental effect of the input fair …
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The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national … and investment in a sample that includes not only 14 industrialized countries, but also 50 developing countries. The paper … developing countries, and higher after 1973 than before. Our interpretation of the saving-investment evidence is that the …
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environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and … markets, and a core thesis of impact investing that some eligible markets do not receive sufficient investment capital …
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According to the consensus view in growth and development economics, cross country differences in per-capita income largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for patterns of capital flows: everything else equal,...
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has significant effects on the cost of capital, investment, and economic growth …
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This paper proposes a new method for measuring the degree to which the domestic capital stock is self-financed. The main idea is to use the national accounts to construct a self-financing ratio, indicating what would have been the autarky stock of tangible capital supported by actual past...
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investment opportunities drive the cross-sectional variation in the post-liberalization investment increases …
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This paper looks at the patterns of causation between income, export, import, and investment growth for 25 developing …
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