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This paper provides empirical support for the view that enhanced economic security fosters private investment and … improved since the mid-1980s; that private investment is mostly influenced by the risk of expropriation, the degree of civil …
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Private sector investment has been a key source of growth in Malaysia over the last three decades, but after an …, this paper aims to explain these trends and their implications for Malaysia''s investment and growth outlook. Aggregate … perceptions as important determinants of the recent decline in private investment. Meanwhile, firm-level data suggest that low …
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Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …
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This paper investigates the determinants of private investment in Pakistan with special emphasis on the impact of … government investment. Using annual data for the period 1973/74-1991/92, it is estimated that private investment was positively … correlated to GDP growth, to credit extended to the private sector, and to government investment. When government investment is …
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, owing to limited time series of the available data. This paper presents an analysis of investment in Poland based on an … underexplored sectoral data set. The determinants of investment are found to include lagged investment, lead production, relative … unit labor costs, EU demand, corporate profitability, and greenfield FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows. Dynamic in …
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This paper examines the extent to which firms in selected MENA countries reported being constrained by the business environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance. The results suggest that small firms in MENA faced...
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estimations of aggregate consumption and corporate investment show that private domestic demand is likely to remain robust with …
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of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to …
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