Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …

A large body of evidence suggests that poor countries tend to invest less (have lower PPP - adjusted investment rates …) and to face higher relative prices of investment goods. It has been suggested that this happens either because these … countries have lower TFP in the investment - good producing sectors, or because they are subject to greater investment …

This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

Private investment in developing countries continued its upward trend in 1996, the most recent year for which data … exist, on an unweighted average basis. Public investment rates continued a decline that began in the early 1980s. The … largest increases in private investment between 1995 and 1996 occurred in Malawi, Mauritania, Benin, Papua New Guinea and …

Has financial liberalization improved the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated to competing uses? In … index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to which extent, investment funds are going to … investment funds are allocated. This conclusion holds after a series of robustness checks and is consistent with firm level …

private investment as a share of GDP in a sample of 78 developing countries. Our empirical results suggest important …) investment, there is also a robust negative effect from a measure of export concentration. After controlling for these two … suggested investment determinants, such as measures of the quality of institutions, political instability or macroeconomic …

attempt at modeling investment. We identify their shortcomings and the problems with the alleged policy implications derived …

attempt at modeling investment. We identify their shortcomings and the problems with the alleged policy implications derived … transitional and a developing economy. -- China ; Identity ; Investment ; Neoclassical Model ; Total Factor Productivity Growth …