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Investment growth in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) has slowed sharply since 2010. Investment … investment growth in six EMDE regions, documents remaining investment needs, especially for infrastructure, and presents a set of … region-specific policy responses to address these needs. It reports three main findings. First, investment growth has been …
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Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a … comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment …, declining foreign direct investment inflows, elevated private debt burdens, heightened political risk, and adverse spillovers …
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to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient, however, especially for transportation … tends to decrease the capacity to finance new investment. …
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investment by formal private sector firms. The finding is largely driven by small and medium-size enterprises, domestic firms … debt reduced the accessibility of finance for private sector firms, limiting investment. Furthermore, a regulatory channel …
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The cost of public investment is not the value of public capital. Unlike for private investors, there is no remotely … plausible behavioral model of the government as investor that suggests that every dollar the public sector spends as "investment … empirical literature on economic growth, which uses, at best, "cumulated, depreciated investment effort" (CUDIE), to estimate …
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The author examines empirically the link between real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing … finds that it has a strong negative impact on investment, after controlling for other standard investment determinants and … real exchange rate uncertainty on investment is significantly larger in economies that are highly open and in those with …
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The authors conduct an empirical study on the effect of the accumulation of pension fund financial assets, on national saving, using a panel of 43 industrial, and developing countries. The authors find evidence suggesting that the accumulation of pension fund financial assets might increase...
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The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...
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In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often...
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The Government of China has placed strong emphasis on addressing problems related to agriculture, farmers, and rural society, with the development of a "new socialist countryside" designated as a top priority for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). The financing of public services in rural...
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