") corruption and the rent-seeking incentives of lower level officials. It argues that a significant obstacle to investment … likely is investment …

investment may be discouraged by high levels of debt that put at risk future profits, as well as firm dimensions that may sharpen …This paper investigates empirically the linkages between corporate debt overhang and investment activity at the firm … the debt-investment link. Using balance sheet data from a broad set of emerging market and developing economy firms, the …

This document provides an investment plan for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Mali, developed with support of the …) framework for the CSA investment plan (CSAIP) is provided, showing how CSA outcomes relate to other MandE frameworks and other … can help spur investment and funding for CSA to help Mali deliver on its NDC and other national targets …

This paper investigates the state of low investment in Afghanistan by studying how investment decisions interact with … arrangements. Firms that participate in the formal financial sector are also subject to higher levels of risk and uncertainty. As …

industrial licensing, on manufacturing firms' investment decisions. The paper finds an economically and statistically significant … positive effect of delicensing on investment. It also shows that firms in states with better credit conditions benefitted more … from the removal of licenses. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates that the increase in investment was predominantly driven …

private investment rates. Remittances are likely to grow more slowly than the earlier trend over the last 5-6 years, but could … nonetheless be a major contributor to future growth if more go into private investment than in the past …

returns. Governments and philanthropists, for example, have set up investment vehicles with mandates to promote social and … environmental goals. Over the last decade, impact investing has gained prominence as an approach to investment that aims to achieve …

institutions due to the adverse and possibly abrupt impacts on investment and economic growth, fiscal revenue and expenditure, debt …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the … process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in Sri Lanka. The analysis …