We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …

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 …

Private investment is the principal transmission channel through which fiscal policy affects growth in high … some four times more effective than investment as a channel for increasing growth through fiscal policy. Although the … private investment response to fiscal contraction may be minor, high-deficit, low-income countries can nonetheless benefit …