for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

The objectives of this Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) are to: (i) provide an up-to-date, fact-based analysis of …

-based growth and most importantly, poverty reduction. It does this by combining an assessment of the investment climate faced by …

practical insights in support of enhancing the climate resilience of infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa …. This first introductory chapter starts with an overview of the investment conditions and climatic context in the region …

information in the estimation of the importance of foreign direct investment in those services. The econometric results show a … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants … investment in services account for almost 5 percent of the observed increase in Chilean manufacturing productivity growth during …

productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …Improving the investment climate is a key pillar of the World Bank's private sector development strategy. Without a … good investment climate, firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from farmers to micro-enterprises to local manufacturing …

Productivity and Investment Climate Survey in 2007 (PICS-II) to assess whether and how the investment environment had changed since … more of their savings at home, instead of abroad. Equally important is the need to improve the quality of that investment …

This paper looks at firm-level evidence on the African business environment from surveys undertaken for Investment …-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business environment-related losses. The surveys also show the importance of high … indirect costs in further depressing the "net" productivity of African firms relative to those in other regions. Reforms are …