The Great Rebalancing Act: Can Investment Be a Lever in Asia?

February 1, 2011

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Malhar S Nabar, and Murtaza H Syed. The Great Rebalancing Act: Can Investment Be a Lever in Asia?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

Ensuring stable growth in the postcrisis world economy will require a rebalancing of economic activity in several countries. In Asia’s export-dependent economies, this entails relying more on private domestic demand as a driver of growth. While some countries need to raise consumption, several need to raise investment or reorient it from tradable to nontradable sectors. These changes in investment could be facilitated by financial reforms that enhance domestically oriented firms’ access to credit, stronger incentives for corporate restructuring, policies to bolster the business climate and reduce uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment.

Subject: Gross fixed investment, Infrastructure, Private investment, Return on investment, Services sector

Keywords: Capital-intensive firm, Exchange rate, Firm, WP

Publication Details

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28
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Working Paper No. 2011/035
Stock No:

WPIEA2011035
ISBN:

9781455217915
ISSN:

1018-5941

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