result of low investment. Latin America is poorer because of lower human capital levels and lower TFP-not because of a lower … business climate indicators converge rapidly. Poor countries without those attributes do not. We show that low investment is …

the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on private firm investment in Ukraine-a large transition economy. Controlling …

excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …The paper analyzes Jamaica''s experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis … provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the …

productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …

We develop new economic policy uncertainty (EPU) indices for Japan from January 1987 onwards building on the approach … index rises around contested national elections and major leadership transitions in Japan, during the Asian Financial Crisis … and in reaction to the Lehman Brothers failure, U.S. debt downgrade in 2011, Brexit referendum, and Japan's recent …

This paper calculates the levels of optimal national saving, investment, and the current account balance for five Asian … economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach … productivity; and consumption demands. In particular, the simulations reveal that variations in prospective demographic change …