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Financing water security for sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific
Leckie, Hannah - 2021
The Asia Water Development Outlook – a flagship publication by the Asian Development Bank - monitors progress in water … that are needed to enhance – water security in the region. Working in close collaboration with the Asian Development Bank … and partners, the OECD endeavoured to characterise funding needs and financing flows for water security in the region. The …
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Underinvestment and Slow Growth : PWBM Concedes Flaws
Simkovic, Michael - 2021
The U.S. economy is growing more slowly than it can and should be growing because it does not invest enough in infrastructure, science, and education. There is an important procedural obstacle to funding public investments — a process of scoring the economic effect of legislation. This process...
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
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State Capacity and China's Economic Performance
Cheng, Hua - 2017
suggest that social stability objectives, rather than economic growth, drive public sector over-staffing …
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Productivity, Accumulation, and Other Public Diseconomies in the Colombian Economic Growth
Ortiz, Carlos Humberto; Uribe, José Ignacio; Vivas, Harvy - 2013
The trend of economic growth in Colombia shifted from acceleration (since the 30's to the 60's) to deceleration (from the 70's to the 90's). This reversal of the Colombian economic dynamics is related to the tendency reduction of productivity gains. To obtain this result it is proposed that the...
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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa : Direct and Indirect Productivity Impacts of 19 Infrastructure Measures
Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2011
Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. This paper, utilizing panel data for South African manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19...
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Fiscal and Governance Linkages in Eastern European Energy : Enabling Growth and Convergence Through Flexible and Fiscally Accountable Regulation
Teksten, Ryan Dain - 2010
Eastern Europe is one of the fastest growing transition economies of the world. The post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, especially the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, continue to undergo a radical economic reform program via microeconomic liberalization, macroeconomic...
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Doing More with Less : How Can Brazil Foster Development While Pursuing Fiscal Consolidation?
Flamini, Valentina - 2019
in roads, water, and electricity by 2030. Brazil can do more with less, but increasing efficiency of public spending will …
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Korea
Baek, Yongchun - 2004
Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government...
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