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Book Synopsis Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital, Capital Grants, and Growth by : Ernesto Crivelli
Download or read book Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital, Capital Grants, and Growth written by Ernesto Crivelli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent literature has explored the relationship between efficiency-adjusted public capital and economic growth. A debate on whether capital grants, and especially EU funds actually contribute to growth has gained prominence lately. This paper empirically assesses the relationship between the quality of public investment, capital grants, and growth in a sample of 43 emerging and peripheral economies over 1991-2015. To this end, the contribution of public capital to growth is estimated using efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series, constructed reflecting the quality of public investment management institutions. In addition, the determinants of effective public investment are analyzed. The results suggest that capital grants contribute positively to effective public investment, and the latter is significant in explaining variations in economic growth. Finally, the paper illustrates the impact of raising EU funds absorption on potential growth in emerging and peripheral EU countries.
Book Synopsis Public Capital, Growth and Welfare by : Pierre-Richard Agénor
Download or read book Public Capital, Growth and Welfare written by Pierre-Richard Agénor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laying a solid foundation of economic facts and ideas, this book provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development.
Book Synopsis Public Capital and Economic Growth by : David Alan Aschauer
Download or read book Public Capital and Economic Growth written by David Alan Aschauer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Capital and Economic Growth by : Alberto Bucci
Download or read book Human Capital and Economic Growth written by Alberto Bucci and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth. Using empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, the authors investigate several important issues in the context of human capital, namely population ageing, inequality, public policy, and long-term economic development. Ultimately, they demonstrate that the accumulation of human capital is of crucial importance to long-run economic growth.
Book Synopsis Public Investment as an Engine of Growth by : Mr.Andrew M. Warner
Download or read book Public Investment as an Engine of Growth written by Mr.Andrew M. Warner and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On average the evidence shows only a weak positive association between investment spending and growth and only in the same year, as lagged impacts are not significant. Furthermore, there is little evidence of long term positive impacts. Some individual countries may be exceptions to this general result, as for example Ethiopia in recent years, as high public investment has coincided with high GDP growth, but it is probably too early to draw definitive conclusions. The fact that the positive association is largely instantaneous argues for the importance of either reverse causality, as capital spending tends to be cut in slumps and increased in booms, or Keynesian demand effects, as spending boosts output in the short run. It argues against the importance of long term productivity effects, as these are triggered by the completed investments (which take several years) and not by the mere spending on the investments. In fact a slump in growth rather than a boom has followed many public capital drives of the past. Case studies indicate that public investment drives tend eventually to be financed by borrowing and have been plagued by poor analytics at the time investment projects were chosen, incentive problems and interest-group-infested investment choices. These observations suggest that the current public investment drives will be more likely to succeed if governments do not behave as in the past, and instead take analytical issues seriously and safeguard their decision process against interests that distort public investment decisions.
Book Synopsis Public Capital and Output Growth in Portugal by : Johanna Elisabeth Ligthart
Download or read book Public Capital and Output Growth in Portugal written by Johanna Elisabeth Ligthart and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Portugal joined the European Union (EU) in 1986, it has received on average 3.3 percent of GDP in transfers per annum from the EU. These transfers-primarily designed to promote infrastructure investment, human capital accumulation, and private investment-boosted the expansion of public investment (including capital transfers) from 4.8 percent of GDP in 1986 to 6.3 percent of GDP in 1998. As a result, gross public capital formation in Portugal (as a share of GDP) is currently the second highest in the EU area (see Figure 1). On average, the real value of the public capital stock grew by 5.1 percent during 1986-95, which is considerably above that of the United States (2.1 percent) but below that of Spain (see Table 1). However, the highest average change in the real value of the Portuguese capital stock was recorded during the 1974-85 period, just after the shift in the political regime,2 indicating that even before joining the EU a substantial share of resources was devoted to public capital accumulation.
Book Synopsis Public Capital, Infrastructure and Industrial Development by : Anders Isaksson
Download or read book Public Capital, Infrastructure and Industrial Development written by Anders Isaksson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper sheds light on how important public capital is for countries trying to industrialize and achieve faster economic growth. To this end, a small empirical model of industrial development is formulated and applied to manufacturing level and growth data for 57 advanced and developing countries for the time period of 1970 to 2000. In estimating the impact of public capital on industry special care is taken to deal with country-specific effects, reverse causality and endogeneity bias. The findings are clear: public capital has important explanatory power for why some countries have managed to industrialize, while others have not. Stages of development influence how strongly public capital matters, but there is evidence of impact at all income levels. Moreover, it seems that the returns to public investment are, largely, diminishing as income increases. A second key conclusion is that growth of public capital not only explains long-term levels of industry, but also how rapidly industry grows. Interestingly, the largest impact occurs for the fastest growing countries, i.e., the Asian tiger economies, and the High-income ones. Based on rates of return on public capital calculations, little support is found for the notion that public infrastructure is overprovided in developing countries. To the contrary, the rate of return on public capital is positive at all stages of development, although higher for the countries least endowed with such capital and those growing at the fastest rate.
Book Synopsis Is There Too Little Public Capital? by : Charles R. Hulten
Download or read book Is There Too Little Public Capital? written by Charles R. Hulten and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment by : Mr.Abdul Abiad
Download or read book The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment written by Mr.Abdul Abiad and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides new evidence of the macroeconomic effects of public investment in advanced economies. Using public investment forecast errors to identify the causal effect of government investment in a sample of 17 OECD economies since 1985 and model simulations, the paper finds that increased public investment raises output, both in the short term and in the long term, crowds in private investment, and reduces unemployment. Several factors shape the macroeconomic effects of public investment. When there is economic slack and monetary accommodation, demand effects are stronger, and the public-debt-to-GDP ratio may actually decline. Public investment is also more effective in boosting output in countries with higher public investment efficiency and when it is financed by issuing debt.
Book Synopsis Some Misconceptions about Public Investment Efficiency and Growth by : Mr.Andrew Berg
Download or read book Some Misconceptions about Public Investment Efficiency and Growth written by Mr.Andrew Berg and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We reconsider the macroeconomic implications of public investment efficiency, defined as the ratio between the actual increment to public capital and the amount spent. We show that, in a simple and standard model, increases in public investment spending in inefficient countries do not have a lower impact on growth than in efficient countries, a result confirmed in a simple cross-country regression. This apparently counter-intuitive result, which contrasts with Pritchett (2000) and recent policy analyses, follows directly from the standard assumption that the marginal product of public capital declines with the capital/output ratio. The implication is that efficiency and scarcity of public capital are likely to be inversely related across countries. It follows that both efficiency and the rate of return need to be considered together in assessing the impact of increases in investment, and blanket recommendations against increased public investment spending in inefficient countries need to be reconsidered. Changes in efficiency, in contrast, have direct and potentially powerful impacts on growth: “investing in investing” through structural reforms that increase efficiency, for example, can have very high rates of return.
Book Synopsis Money and Capital in Economic Development by : Ronald I. McKinnon
Download or read book Money and Capital in Economic Development written by Ronald I. McKinnon and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books presents a theory of economic development very different from the "stages of growth" hypothesis or strategies emphasizing foreign aid, trade, or regional association. Leaving these aside, the author breaks new ground by focusing on the use of domestic capital markets to stimulate economic performance. He suggests a "bootstrap" approach in which successful development would depend largely on policy choices made by national authorities in the developing countries themselves. Central to his theory is the freeing of domestic financial markets to allow interest rates to reflect the true scarcity of capital in a developing economy. His analysis leads to a critique of prevailing monetary theory and to a new view of the relation between money and physical capital—a view with policy implications for governments striving to overcome the vicious circle of inflation and stagnation. Examining the performance of South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, and other countries, the author suggests that their success or failure has depended primarily on steps taken in the monetary sector. He concludes that monetary reform should take precedence over other development measures, such as tariff and tax reform or the encouragement of foreign capital investment. In addition to challenging much of the conventional wisdom of development, the author's revision of accepted monetary theory may be relevant for mature economies that face monetary problems.
Book Synopsis Public Capital, Private Capital and Economic Growth by : Alberto Bucci
Download or read book Public Capital, Private Capital and Economic Growth written by Alberto Bucci and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Investment and Private Sector Growth by : David Alan Aschauer
Download or read book Public Investment and Private Sector Growth written by David Alan Aschauer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report demonstrates the importance of public investment in physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, mass transit, electric power, sewers, etc.) to the stimulation of private sector productivity, profitability, and investment. Specifically, the report argues that the slow-down in spending for infrastructure over the past 25 years has been a major cause of the U.S. economy's poor performance since 1970.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Public Capital and Public Investment on Economic Growth by : P.C. Ferreira
Download or read book The Impact of Public Capital and Public Investment on Economic Growth written by P.C. Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth by : Mr.Sanjeev Gupta
Download or read book Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth written by Mr.Sanjeev Gupta and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper constructs an efficiency-adjusted public capital stock series and re-examines the public capital and growth relationship for 52 developing countries. The results show that public capital is a significant contributor to economic growth. Although the estimated coefficient for the income share of public capital is larger in middle- than in low-income countries, the opposite is true for the marginal product of public capital. The quality of public investment, as measured by variables capturing the adequacy of project selection and implementation, are statistically significant in explaining variations in economic growth, a result mainly driven by low-income countries.
Book Synopsis Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy by : Stephen J. Turnovsky
Download or read book Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy written by Stephen J. Turnovsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the process of economic growth in a small open economy by one of the world's leading economists.
Book Synopsis The Knowledge Capital of Nations by : Eric A. Hanushek
Download or read book The Knowledge Capital of Nations written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.
