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Weakness in Investment Growth : Causes, Implications and Policy Responses
Kose, M. Ayhan - 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/10012961222
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Inflation and Indivisible Investment in Developing Economies
Eden, Maya - 2017
In countries with limited access to finance, firms accumulate retained earnings to finance indivisible investment … projects. McKinnon (1973) illustrates that when cash is used as a primary store of value, inflation may discourage investment … and provides a simple calibration of the model that suggests sizable effects of inflation on investment. The mechanism is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972973
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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921429
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Impact Evaluation of a Large-Scale Rural Sanitation Project in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A. - 2017
Lack of sanitation and poor hygiene behavior cause a tremendous disease burden among the poor. This paper evaluates the impact of the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing project in Indonesia, where about 11 percent of children have diarrhea in any two-week period and more than 33,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974615
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Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857202
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Labor Markets and Income Generation in Rural Argentina
Verner, Dorte - 2016
This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes. Findings show that the poor allocate a lower share of their labor to farm sectors than the nonpoor do, but still around 70 percent work in agriculture, and the vast majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747882
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Community Programs and Women's Participation : The Chinese Experience
Coady, David P. - 2017
Using household data specifically collected for the purpose of evaluation, the authors empirically evaluate the impact on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in the local community. They find that the program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966165
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Determinants of International Buyout Investments
Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020
pronounced in countries with better corporate governance standards and education. Buyout investment responds to these factors … more so than foreign direct investment and gross domestic fixed investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838894
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Assessing the Returns on Investment in Data Openness and Transparency
Zeufack, Albert - 2020
This paper investigates the potential benefits for a country from investing in data transparency. The paper shows that increased data transparency can bring substantive returns in lower costs of external borrowing. This result is obtained by estimating the impact of public data transparency on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842575
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Regional Dimensions of Recent Weakness in Investment : Drivers, Investment Needs and Policy Responses
Vashakmadze, Ekaterine - 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 …
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