data from two rounds of the Guatemalan population census, as well as administrative data on investment projects, the … authors estimate the impact of education, sanitation, productive, and total investment activities at the village level on … to analyze this type of interventions. The outcome is such that local investment in schools significantly boosts …

Social investment funds, a widely used tool of development efforts, aim to support and strengthen local capacity for …

. A further challenge comes from the negative effect on foreign and domestic investment flows over the period, resulting …