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Public Investments in Croatia [PDF]
Occasional paper series, 1999 The purpose of this paper is to analyze public investment or capital expenditures in the Republic of Croatia. The paper begins with an overview of public sector statistics regarding capital investment financing. One of the most difficult tasks was to adapt the idiosyncratic reporting method of Croatian public sector statistics to more usual public ...
Katarina Ott, Anto Bajo
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The decline in public investment: ``social dominance’’ or too-rigid fiscal rules?
Applied Economics, 2022 Public investment in advanced economies is at historical lows, following a declining trend since the 1980s. Two main hypotheses have been posed to explain this evolution: (i) the ‘social dominance hypothesis’, whereby increased public social spending has
Mar Delgado-Téllez +3 more
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Public Investment as Commitment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? The long-term nature of public investments provides commitment to current preferences, which justifies lower than private returns for time-inconsistent decision markers. An institutionalized (i.e., exogenous) rule demanding equalized
Reyer Gerlagh, Matti Liski
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Addressing the “shadow pandemic” through a public health approach to violence prevention
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2020 Experts from across the globe have warned of the adverse consequences of COVID-19 lockdown and physical distancing restrictions on violence in the home, with the United Nations describing it as a shadow pandemic.
Lara C. Snowdon +5 more
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Wales without violence: A framework for preventing violence among children and young people
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2023 Violence among children and young people (CYP) is a complex societal issue that has detrimental impacts on the health and well-being of children, young people, and adults throughout their lives. Population health research tells us that CYP are adversely
Emma R. Barton +3 more
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The impact of behavioural risk factors on communicable diseases: a systematic review of reviews
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted that individuals with behavioural risk factors commonly associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as smoking, harmful alcohol use, obesity, and physical inactivity, are more ...
Sara Wood +5 more
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The state of local infrastructure investment in Europe
, 2021 Europe’s COVID-19 recovery strategy calls for large-scale public investment to “building back better.” Municipalities account for 45% of all public investment – which makes them a key partner in recovery efforts.
Debs, Maïa, McGoldrick, Peter
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Analysis of the Transmission Mechanism of Public Investments: The Case of the DSGE Model [PDF]
Финансовый журнал, 2023 This paper attempts to assess the impact of public investment within the framework of a simple DSGE model calibrated on Russian data. To this end, three versions of the DSGE model were constructed.
Anton I. Votinov +2 more
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Investing in public investment: an index of public investment efficiency
Journal of Economic Growth, 2011 This paper introduces a new index that captures the institutional environment underpinning public investment management across four different stages: project appraisal, selection, implementation, and evaluation. Covering 71 countries, including 40 low-income countries, the index allows for benchmarking across regions and country groups and for nuanced ...
Dabla-Norris, Era +4 more
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The social value of investing in public health across the life course: a systematic scoping review
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Making the case for investing in public health by illustrating the social, economic and environmental value of public health interventions is imperative.
Kathryn Ashton +5 more
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