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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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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...
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previous work. The analysis finds that inflation affects the composition but not the overall quantity of investment. A one … affect total investment. Moreover, innovating firms display a stronger dependence on liquid assets, which, in turn, are …
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set of moments describing firm-level investment dynamics and detailed parameter estimates on a country-by-country basis …
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key determinant of private investors' investment in infrastructure projects, and that investors tend to take countries … investment in power projects. Furthermore, when the banking sector and the capital market are separately treated in the analysis …
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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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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 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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conflict persistent: refugee flows and investment. Both channels display wide variation across recovery episodes, and are …
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