economic fundamentals, such as savings, investment, productivity, and export diversification, remain stagnant. The good news in …

increase in private sector credit supporting private investment. This was facilitated by a prudent and accommodative regional … monetary policy and improved financial regulation. Pro-cyclical fiscal policies supported public infrastructure investment but …

This paper investigates the role of fiscal guarantees in promoting infrastructure investment. Infrastructure is a … give guarantees for reasons of fiscal prudence. The paper argues that governments and large investment guarantee agencies … be fiscally prudent and yet boost investment, especially in infrastructure, and thereby promote growth …

Few economic ideas are as intuitive as the notion that increasing investment is the best way to raise future output … patterns of investment and capital formation were not the main factors that led nations to be rich or poor, fast-growing or … national investment rates can produce major increases in rates of economic growth. The authors find that although the capital …

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 …

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 …