This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

This fifth edition of Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries provides private and public investment data … from 1970 through 1992. The Discussion Paper also includes aggregate data on net foreign direct investment and a brief … discussion of the effects of recent privatization activities on private investment flows …

Private investment in developing countries continued its upward trend in 1996, the most recent year for which data … exist, on an unweighted average basis. Public investment rates continued a decline that began in the early 1980s. The … largest increases in private investment between 1995 and 1996 occurred in Malawi, Mauritania, Benin, Papua New Guinea and …

The first part of the discussion paper documents trends in private and public fixed investment. On average for the 47 … countries covered (including, for the first time in this series, China), 1997 was a record year for private investment, which … investment declined to 7.2 percent of GDP, its lowest level since 1975. The largest 1997 increases in private investment were in …

The report is part of the continued investigation on the public-private investment relationship, and its focus for this … year is on the quality of public investment, its interaction with corruption, and the resulting impact on private … investment. The first chapter provides statistics on trends in private, and public fixed investment in sixty three developing …

This discussion paper examines in its first part, the role of private investment in economic growth. While theoretical … growth models developed in the economics literature, make no distinction between private, and public components of investment …, there is an emerging appreciation that private investment is more efficient, and productive tan public investment. Results …

This is the tenth annual edition of "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries." To mark this event, this … industrial countries for comparison). The first part of this report documents trends in private and public fixed investment. The … obstacles to doing business and their relationship to levels of private investment. A few factors emerge as being of particular …

Private investment in developing countries continued its upward trend in 1996, the most recent year for which data … exist, on an unweighted average basis. Public investment rates continued a decline that began in the early 1980s. The … largest increases in private investment between 1995 and 1996 occurred in Malawi, Mauritania, Benin, Papua New Guinea, and …