Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect … institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors …

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary … vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …

This paper investigates the role of fiscal guarantees in promoting infrastructure investment. Infrastructure is a … give guarantees for reasons of fiscal prudence. The paper argues that governments and large investment guarantee agencies … be fiscally prudent and yet boost investment, especially in infrastructure, and thereby promote growth …

Few economic ideas are as intuitive as the notion that increasing investment is the best way to raise future output … patterns of investment and capital formation were not the main factors that led nations to be rich or poor, fast-growing or … national investment rates can produce major increases in rates of economic growth. The authors find that although the capital …

This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …, cross-country empirical analysis shows that economywide saving and investment in China are higher than what would be … demographics - saving and investment would both decline only mildly in the coming two decades, with ambiguous impact on the current …

key determinant of private investors' investment in infrastructure projects, and that investors tend to take countries … investment in power projects. Furthermore, when the banking sector and the capital market are separately treated in the analysis …