With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure … scores for a wide range of countries employing metrics of infrastructure quantity and utilization. We find that efficiency … inefficiencies could increase infrastructure output by 55 percent overall, when averaging across 12 estimation approaches …

maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship bet …

maintaining infrastructure networks. Over the past decade, developed and developing countries have looked to fiscal rules … instruments to raise additional finance for infrastructure investment. This paper looks at the range of options for raising the … financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship between …

A surge of exports in the 2000s helped Japan exit the severe decade-long stagnation known as the lost decade. Using … supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

finds that Asia's remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity …This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It … encouraged resource shifts from low- to high-productivity sectors. Looking ahead, sustaining rapid growth requires meeting a …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

potential growth, largely reflecting a decline of total factor productivity (TFP) growth; (ii) by contrast, trend growth for the …

is explained more by a decline in productivity rather than a lack of investment. Second, tourism has been a significant … contributor to higher growth (through both capital accumulation and productivity) and lower output volatility, and in man …