Ukraine's economic performance has been anemic since the early 1990s. A major impediment to productivity growth has … been low investment, held back by lack of strong and independent institutions. This paper aims to assess the major areas of … institutional weakness in Ukraine and quantify the long-term growth impact of catching-up to Poland in terms of the quality of major …

, privatization methods had a lasting effect on ownership structure in Ukraine …This paper investigates the relationship between ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine. Using … performance in Ukraine. The paper also finds that concentration of ownership by foreign companies and banks is associated with …

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …

liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …

of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to …

investment. Moldova stands to greatly benefit from strengthening its public corporate governance regime to put its public …

Many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, like Benin, have scaled up public investment during the last decade. Such a … planned fiscal consolidation will result in some restraint of public spending, and, in particular, public investment. In this … draws lessons from countries that have successfully transitioned from public investment to private investment-led growth …