The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies. To this end, the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically...
This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality, utilizing the World Bank’s investment project performance data from 120 countries over 2000–21. After detailing the construction...
Does ambient infrastructural quality affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? This paper investigates how the arrival of high-speed Internet in Africa triggered FDI to the region...
Ratings for the Support for Economic Diversification Project were as follows: Outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Overall efficacy was negligible for original PDO and modest for revised PDO, Bank performance...
This report includes: introductory considerations; institutional cluster for governing FDI and international trade; and building technical cadres.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can contribute significantly towards India reaching its aspiration of 8 percent growth per annum. Prior to 2009, India did not have a national dedicated organization with...