openness to goods trade and investment coexists with relative restrictiveness of services policies -- which is affecting the … and fragmented agreements that regulate the region?s trade and investment and the growing importance of regional and …

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 …