The Quality of Public Investment

By Shankha Chakraborty, Era Dabla-Norris

July 1, 2009

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Shankha Chakraborty, and Era Dabla-Norris. The Quality of Public Investment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper develops a growth model with specialized goods where inefficient and corrupt bureaucracies interact with the provision of public investment services in affecting the productivity of private capital, specialization, and growth. The model provides potential explanations for the contradictory empirical results on the effects of public investment found in the literature as well as for the role of the quality of public infrastructure investment in creating a gap between rich and poor countries. From a policy perspective, the paper suggests that the link between public investment and growth depends critically on the quality and efficiency of public capital.

Subject: Corruption, Crime, Expenditure, Income, Infrastructure, Labor, National accounts, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending

Keywords: Corruption, Income, Infrastructure, Infrastructure investment, Investment decision, Low income, Low-productivity project, Productivity difference, Productivity effect, Public Capital, Public Investment, Public investment spending, Value-enhancing investment, WP

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23
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Working Paper No. 2009/154
Stock No:

WPIEA2009154
ISBN:

9781451873016
ISSN:

1018-5941

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