; and the response tends to be more pronounced among mining than among hydrocarbon firms. There is only weak evidence …

/urban inequality and sectoral reallocation. The three forms of investment are complementary. Infrastructure investments favor formal …

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often … public investment in a large sample of road construction projects in developing countries. Consistent with the presence of … absorptive capacity constraints, our results show a non-linear U-shaped relationship between public investment and project costs …

revenue needs for financing social and public investment spending over the medium term—suggest that a review of Mexico …’s challenges. This paper identifies opportunities for redesigning mining taxation to increase somewhat the revenue intake while … maintaining the favorable investment profile of the sector. It also discusses recent reforms to the oil and gas fiscal regime and …

This paper assess how priorities of the IMF’s membership have evolved over the past two decades, by using text mining …