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response of investment to continued demand weakness, leading in turn to a deterioration in potential output via a hysteresis … government investment as a share of GDP has further exacerbated post-crisis weakness in capital stock growth, both directly and … probably indirectly via adverse spillover effects on business investment. Finally, at a time when the use of conventional macro …
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capital stock since the financial crisis can be explained by an accelerator response of investment to continued demand …. In many OECD countries, declining government investment as a share of GDP has further exacerbated post-crisis weakness in … capital stock growth, both directly and probably indirectly via adverse spillover effects on business investment. Finally …
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investment through wide-ranging structural reforms. Areas that require reforms include the regulation of product and labour … institutions are particularly relevant, would stimulate private investment, facilitating the creation of new firms and jobs, and …
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Policy reforms aimed at boosting long-run growth often have side effects – positive or negative – on an economy’s vulnerability to shocks and their propagation. Macroeconomic shocks as severe and protracted as those since 2007 warrant a reconsideration of the role growth-promoting policies...
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Using a large panel of OECD countries this paper studies the link between debt and macroeconomic stability by comparing the evolution of balance sheet aggregates and economic output in high- and lowdebt environments. While the relationship between debt and economic growth has been extensively...
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highlights future investment and financing challenges, especially for road transport. The methodology piloted in this study can …
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analysis further identifies sources of financing in these subsectors and discusses future investment and financing challenges …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Investments in both human and physical capital are key drivers of economic growth and productivity gains. The United Kingdom has had a turbulent recent history, being strongly affected by the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and more recently voting to leave the European Union, its largest...
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