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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012
Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable ways of tracking the social impact of shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554243
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Regional Dimensions of Recent Weakness in Investment : Drivers, Investment Needs and Policy Responses
Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Kambou, Gérard; Nandwa, Boaz; … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570490
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Weakness in Investment Growth : Causes, Implications and Policy Responses
Islamaj, Ergys; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Ye, Lei - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012570491
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2013
to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient, however, especially for transportation … tends to decrease the capacity to finance new investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560098
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Distributional Crowding Out Effects of Public Debt on Private Investment in Developing Economies
Islam, Asif M.; Nguyen, Ha - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015113191
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The Tyranny of Concepts : CUDIE (Cumulated, Depreciated Investment Effort) is NOT capital
Pritchett, Lant - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572751
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Real Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Private Investment in Developing Countries
S??rven, Luis - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559585
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Pension Funds and National Saving
Lopez Murphy, Pablo; Musalem, Alberto R. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559834
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Local Budget Transparency and Participation : Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic
Esenaliev, Damir; Kisunko, Gregory - 2015
The paper investigates determinants of civic participation in local budget processes in rural areas in the Kyrgyz Republic by using data from the Life in Kyrgyzstan survey, conducted in 2012. The analysis of the data suggests that although civic awareness and interest in local budget processes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572018
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Do Resource-Rich Countries Suffer from a Lack of Fiscal Discipline?
Bleaney, Michael F.; Halland, Havard - 2016
resource exporters, in aggregate expenditures and revenues. Ores and metals exporters spend more on investment and less on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571323