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 …

Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity … better integration with global value chains. Nonetheless, these benefits are not automatic. Investment policies are required … to maximize the potential gains of foreign direct investment. One challenge is that there are different kinds of foreign …

This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 … developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open …, institutional quality tends to survive as the causal determinant of investment …

compatible" -- future. However, private investment will only flow at the scale and pace necessary if it is supported by clear …, credible, and long-term policy frameworks that shift the risk-reward balance in favor of less carbon-intensive investment. The … lower investment risk. Barriers to low carbon investments often include unclear and inconsistent energy policies, monopoly …

vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …

-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …;innovation shortfallquot;, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (Ramp;D) when compared with some high … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …