On the Capacity to Absorb Public Investment : How Much is Too Much? /

While expanding public investment can help filling infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling up too much and too fast often leads to inefficient outcomes. This paper rationalizes this outcome looking at the association between cost inflation and public investment in a large sample of road construction pro...

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Autor Principal: Gurara, Daniel
Outros autores: Kpodar, Kangni, Presbitero, Andrea, Tessema, Dawit
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/048
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF