investment shows a combination of demand of firms and supply household savings and due to the volatile nature reflects short-term fluctuations in the economy of any country. this study examines the effect of abundance natural resources on private sector investment through the economic freedom and five main index (government's size, the structure of property rights, access to sound money, f...

In this paper I analyze the impact of increasing government infrastructure investment by using existing large foreign exchange reserves in a fully optimizing model matching the Chinese economy. Even though the private investment falls in the nontradable sector, real expenditure and money balance decrease in the short run, the infrastructure investment greately enhances the efficiency and produc...

This paper examines the role of financial sector policies in determining private investment in the economies of India and Malaysia. The results suggest that the presence of significant directed credit programs favoring certain priority sectors in the economies appear to be harmful for private capital formation in both countries. Interest rate controls seem to have a positive impact on investmen...

The 1990s witnessed a period of significant increase in investments in the oil and gas sector in Latin America. In most countries private investment took the lead after the privatization and liberalization of the sector. For example, in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, private oil investment and/or some form of privatization made possible significant additions in hydrocarbons...

Housing affordability in Australia is declining, especially for low-income tenants in the private sector. A number of attempts have been made to attract more private investment into boosting the supply of affordable housing in Australia. However, these attempts have been one-off and small-scale, enjoying very limited success. Large professional and institutional investors continue to avoid the ...

the housing sector can be considered both the exchange of intermediate goods and the investment goods for the manufacturing sectors. the housing sector is the buyer of intermediate goods such as brick, cement, iron etc from one side, and uses the investment goods such as crane etc from other side. furthermore, it uses the labour force. thus, the housing sector has three types of buying which in...

rivate participation in the provision of infrastructure is less than was once expected, particularly in developing countries. Some reasons for this are identified in this paper. It is argued that the problem of dealing with market power in the provision of infrastructure services is similar to that of other forms of procurement in the presence of long-lived and immobile assets employed specific...