Download or read book Private Investment in Developing Countries written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the effects of several policy and other macro-economic variables on the ratio of private investment to GDP in developing countries. Using data for a sample of 23 developing countries over the period 1975-87, the econometric evidence indicates that the rate of private investment is positively related to the real growth rate of GDP, public sector investment, and to a lesser extent the level of per capita GDP, while it is negatively related to domestic inflation, the debt service ratio, the debt-to-GDP ratio, and high real interest rates. There is also some indication that all but the last of these variables had a greater impact before the onset of the debt crisis in 1982, while the debt-to-GDP ratio (a measure of a country’s debt overhang) has become more important since then.

Download or read book Private Investment and External Debt written by Hiranya Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book External Debt Statistics written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-06-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide provides clear, up-to-date guidance on the concepts, definitions, and classifications of the gross external debt of the public and private sectors, and on the sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses of these data. The Guide supersedes the previous international guidance on external debt statistics available in External Debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage, and Methodology (known as the Gray Book), 1988. The Guides conceptual framework derives from the System of National Accounts 1993 and the fifth edition of the IMFs Balance of Payments Manual(1993). Preparation of the Guide was undertaken by an Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics, chaired by the IMF and involving representatives from the BIS, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Central Bank, Eurostat, the OECD, the Paris Club Secretariat, UNCTAD, and the World Bank.

Download or read book External Debt and Private Investment in Low income African Countries written by Andrew Mwaba and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Education Expenditure and Other Determinants of Private Investment in the Caribbean written by Mr.Benedict J. Clements and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of private investment in the Caribbean region, using data for the 1977-91 time period. Drawing on the endogenous growth literature, a model is developed to capture the impact of public education expenditure on private sector capital formation. The implications of this model are tested in the context of an econometric model assessing the impact of education and other variables on the share of private investment in GDP. The empirical results reveal that public education outlays, as well as economic growth, have a significant effect on private capital formation. Public investment has a negative effect on private investment, while real interest rates and external debt burdens are found to have no statistically significant impact on private investment.

Download or read book Foreign Private Investment in Developing Countries written by International Monetary Fund. Research Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1985-01-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s foreign direct and portfolio equity investment flows into developing countries, although continuing to increase in absolute terms, have been relatively less important than in previous years, as foreign private capital flows have been dominated by debt-creating bank credit.

Download or read book Can Debt reduction Policies Restore Investment and Economic Growth in Highly Indebted Countries written by Jacques Morisset and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1982, public and private investment rates have declined dramatically in most debtor countries. What would be the effects of debt- reduction operations for heavily indebted countries like Argentina?

Download or read book Dynamic Impact of External Debt Accumulation on Private Investment and Growth in Africa written by Njuguna Ndung'u and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book External Constraints on Private Investment Decisions in Developing Countries written by Edmund Valpy Knox Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Can Government Demand Stimulate Private Investment Evidence from U S Federal Procurement written by Shafik Hebous and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the effects of federal purchases on firms’ investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. We find that 1 dollar of federal spending increases firms’ capital investment by 7 to 11 cents. The average effect masks heterogeneity: Effects are stronger for firms that face financing constraints and they are close to 0 for unconstrained firms. In line with the financial accelerator model, our findings indicate that the effect of government purchases works through easing firms’ access to external borrowing. Furthermore, industry-level analysis suggests that that the increase in investment at the firm level translates into an industry-wide effect without crowding-out capital investment of other firms in the same industry.

Download or read book Public Investment Growth and Debt Sustainability written by Mr.Andrew Berg and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy reactions necessary to ensure debt-sustainability; and (iv) the macroeconomic adjustment required to ensure internal and external balance. Well-executed high-yielding public investment programs can substantially raise output and consumption and be self-financing in the long run. However, even if the long run looks good, transition problems can be formidable when concessional financing does not cover the full cost of the investment program. Covering the resulting gap with tax increases or spending cuts requires sharp macroeconomic adjustments, crowding out private investment and consumption and delaying the growth benefits of public investment. Covering the gap with domestic borrowing market is not helpful either: higher domestic rates increase the financing challenge and private investment and consumption are still crowded out. Supplementing with external commercial borrowing, on the other hand, can smooth these difficult adjustments, reconciling the scaling up with feasibility constraints on increases in tax rates. But the strategy may be also risky. With poor execution, sluggish fiscal policy reactions, or persistent negative exogenous shocks, this strategy can easily lead to unsustainable public debt dynamics. Front-loaded investment programs and weak structural conditions (such as low returns to public capital and poor execution of investments) make the fiscal adjustment more challenging and the risks greater.

Download or read book Financial Market Constraints and Private Investment in a Developing Country written by Mr.Omotunde E. G. Johnson and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms in developing countries that seek outside financing for investment must often choose their debt-equity combinations in the face of financial market constraints on debt service, on outside equity financing, and on internal finance (endowments). Inefficiencies in the allocation of available finance and in the equity-debt choices that can ensue can be prevented by appropriate policy measures to improve information on profitable investment opportunities and about firms; to directly strengthen financial intermediation; and to support appropriate credit guarantee schemes.

Download or read book Foreign Debt Rescheduling and Private Investment in LDCs written by Kazi Zeeshan Rabeth Hasan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between foreign debt and repayment problems on investment behavior in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). It is primarily motivated by earlier studies which have found empirical evidence of such a relationship, but did not attempt to incorporate it into a theoretical model which could shed light on the functioning of developing macroeconomies. An effort will be made to address this possibility by modeling the determinants of private investment in LDCs in a way that will allow an examination of the effects of high external debt and repayment problems on private investment. This will be achieved by assuming a parallel informal market for savings which operates by means of a simultaneous equations model of supply and demand. Conceptually, such a model is just an extension of previous attempts to understand the parallel capital markets that arise in the context of interest rate controls and credit rationing common in LDCs. The equations of the resultant private investment model will consider external debt and repayment problems explicitly in terms of their effects on credit ceilings, which are likely to be applicable due to the possibility of countries defaulting on their foreign debt. Savings will be assumed to clear through arbitrage in the informal capital market by means of an unobserved interest rate. This will provide a means of analyzing investment while avoiding some of the problems which commonly arise while looking at investment in developing countries. Substitution for the unobserved market clearing interest rate will allow the formulation of a reduced form equation, the signs of whose coefficients may be predicted from the original supply and demand equations. Since the reduced form equation contains only observable variables, its coefficients may be empirically determined.

Download or read book the growth in government domestic debt changing burdens and risks written by James A. Hanson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This paper analyzes the recent growth of government domestic debt, including central bank debt, using a new data base on government domestic debt in developing countries with large, open financial systems. On average, government domestic debt grew much faster than GDP between 1994 and 2004 and became larger than foreign debt. The rapid growth of domestic debt reflects financial crises, the growth of central bank debt and the greater attractiveness to governments of issuing domestic debt as well as the recent increase in demands for it. Both its attractiveness and the increased demands for it reflect the current benign international environment to some degree. The main risk of government debt, domestic or foreign, remains its overall size relative to a country's fiscal, financial, and political institutions. While government domestic debt can help the domestic private capital market, large domestic debt, like large external debt, has risks. For example, there can be "sudden stops" in the demand for domestic debt as well as in foreign lending. Governments need to be aware of the risks and burdens in domestic debt issue-crowding out small borrowers, transferring risks to banks when issuing longer maturity, fixed-interest domestic debt and reducing returns, and imposing risks on holders of pensions, annuities, and life insurance policies. Growth of central bank debt can divert central banks from pursuit of the objective of price stability.

Download or read book Foreign Investment Debt and Economic Growth in Latin America written by Antonio Jorge and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Lending to Sovereign States written by Daniel Cohen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating work on external debt, Daniel Cohen explodes many myths currently popular among economists, bankers, and journalists about the nature of the debt problem, its origins, and its cure.

Download or read book Private Finance for Development written by Hilary Devine and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources. To alleviate this tension and promote a strong and job-rich recovery from the crisis, Africa needs to mobilize more financing from and to the private sector.