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Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Does PIGS stand for Procyclicality In Government Spending? [PDF]

open access: yes
The Financial Crisis has hit particularly hard countries like Ireland or Spain. Procyclical fiscal policy has contributed to a boom-bust cycle that undermined fiscal positions and deepened current account deficits during the boom.
Claeys, Peter, Maravalle, Alessandro
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

How inadequate provision of public infrastructure and services affects private investment [PDF]

open access: yes
Lack of private investment is a serious policy problem in many developing countries, especially in Africa. Despite recent structural reform and stabilization, the investment response to date has been mixed, even among the strongest reformers. The role of
Reinikka, Ritva, Svensson, Jakob
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment policy trends

open access: yes, 2018
The article points out that investment policy becomes more complex, heterogeneous and uncertain. The imperatives of sustainable development pose new challenges to investment policies and make them more multifaceted, and their approaches become more diversified. The authors say that this makes investment policy less predictable in the eyes of investors.
Alina V. Shevtsova; FGBOU VO \\"Sankt-Peterburgskii gosudarstvennyi ekonomicheskii universitet\\"   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Investment Ratio and Growth [PDF]

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In growth and development policy investment ratio is an important policy instrument. However, there is no well defined framework to determine what should be the investment ratio for a given growth target. This paper explains the potential of Solow (1956)
B Bhaskara Rao
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