Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines

February 29, 2016

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Takuji Komatsuzaki. Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

This paper explores the macroeconomic effects of improving public infrastructure in the Philippines. After benchmarking the Philippines relative to its neighbors in terms of level of public capital and quality of public infrastructure, and public investment efficiency, it uses model simulations to assess the macroeconomic implications of raising public investment and improving public investment efficiency. The main results are as follows: (i) increasing public infrastructure investment results in sustained gains in output; (ii) the effects of improving public investment efficiency are substantial; and (iii) deficit-financed increases in public investment lead to higher borrowing costs that constrain output increases over time, underscoring the importance of revenue mobilization.

Subject: Expenditure, Infrastructure, National accounts, Private investment, Public debt, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending

Keywords: Crowding in, Efficiency frontier, Efficiency regime, Global, Infrastructure, Investment, Investment rate, Management problem, Philippines, Private investment, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public Investment Efficiency, Public investment spending, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

24
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2016/039
Stock No:

WPIEA2016039
ISBN:

9781513515113
ISSN:

1018-5941

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