Theory and evidence on the effects of public investment on growth and productivity are reviewed. It is concluded that, on average, public capital has positive impacts on output and private investment, partly offset by the effects of the taxation needed to finance it. A possible future shortfall...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The BRI in a Multipolar World: A Normative Tool for Cooperation or Nationalism? -- Chapter 3: Margins of Autonomy in the Chinese Belt Road Initiative: Negotiating Growth in Rural Angola -- Chapter 4: China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Three Diverse...

The underlying objective of the study is to examine the role of transport infrastructure expenditure incurred by the public sector on ecological footprint while controlling the factors like urbanization, mobile use, electricity consumption, and economic growth in India. In order to implicate the...

This paper conducts a systematic growth and fiscal analysis to determine: (1) the growth potential of Benin's ambitious scaling-up of investment, and (2) how the government can generate the necessary fiscal space needed to increase investment without jeopardizing Benin's solid macroeconomic...