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Well Spent : How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment »
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513511818.071
ISBN: 9781513511818
Keywords: Infrastructure governance, investment efficiency, public investment management, public financial management
Drawing on the Fund's analytical and capacity development work, including Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) carried out in more than 60 countries, the new book Well Spent: How Strong Infrastructure G...

Strengthening Public Investment Management in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Getting more bang for the dollar! »
Source: Strengthening Public Investment Management in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Getting more bang for the dollar!
Volume/Issue: 2020/177
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): A. E. Wayne Mitchell , Ann Marie Wickham , and Manuel Rosales Torres
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2020
ISBN: 9781513555003
Keywords: Expenditure Efficiency, Infrastructure, Public Investment Management
The quality and stock of infrastructure vary widely across countries of the Eastern Carribbean Currency Union and are inadequate to achieve the desired higher growth and social development. Given relatively low inv...

Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines »
Source: Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines
Volume/Issue: 2016/39
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Takuji Komatsuzaki
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 February 2016
ISBN: 9781513515113
Keywords: Public Investment Efficiency, investment, public investment, tax, stock, capital stock, Infrastructures,, Infrastructure, Philippines, Asia and Pacific
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 p...

Public Investment Management Assessment - Review and Update »
Source: Public Investment Management Assessment - Review and Update
Volume/Issue: 2018/025
Series: Policy Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 May 2018
ISBN: 9781498308441
Keywords: Public investments, Public investment programs, Economic growth, Expenditure efficiency, Fiscal policy, Pima, PPPs, public investment, PIM, institutional design
"Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) are the IMF‘s key tool for assessing infrastructure governance over the full investment cycle and supporting economic institution building in this area. The PIMA fr...

Some Misconceptions about Public Investment Efficiency and Growth* »
Source: Some Misconceptions about Public Investment Efficiency and Growth
Volume/Issue: 2015/272
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Andrew Berg , Edward Buffie , Catherine Pattillo , Rafael Portillo , Andrea Presbitero , and Luis-Felipe Zanna
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 December 2015
ISBN: 9781513589978
Keywords: Public investment, Growth, Efficiency, Low-Income Countries, capital, investment, production, Infrastructures, General, Institutions and Growth
We reconsider the macroeconomic implications of public investment efficiency, defined as the ratio between the actual increment to public capital and the amount spent. We show that, in a simple and standard model,...

Public Investment in a Developing Country Facing Resource Depletion »
Source: Public Investment in a Developing Country Facing Resource Depletion
Volume/Issue: 2015/236
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Adrian Alter , Matteo Ghilardi , and Dalia Hakura
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
ISBN: 9781513530253
Keywords: Public Capital, Investment Efficiency, Project Selection, investment, public investment, debt, revenues, revenue, International Lending and Debt Problems, Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
This paper analyzes the tradeoffs between savings, debt and public investment in the Republic of Congo, a developing country with looming oil exhaustibility concerns. Our results highlight the risks to fiscal and c...

Chapter 4 Infrastructure Investment and the Sustainable Development Goals »
Source: Well Spent : How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
ISBN: 9781513511818
Keywords: Infrastructure governance, investment efficiency, public investment management, public financial management
Introduction The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) delineate a comprehensive international agenda for sustainable development by 2030 that has bee...

Chapter 7 Designing Fiscal Rules to Protect Investment »
Source: Well Spent : How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
ISBN: 9781513511818
Keywords: Infrastructure governance, investment efficiency, public investment management, public financial management
Introduction Public investment supported by strong infrastructure governance can have a significant economic growth impact, as documented in Chapter 2 and in the literature such as L...

Chapter 12 Integrating Infrastructure Planning and Budgeting »
Source: Well Spent : How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
ISBN: 9781513511818
Keywords: Infrastructure governance, investment efficiency, public investment management, public financial management
Introduction Efficient and well-integrated planning and budgeting functions are key for building quality infrastructure. Planning establishes a framework of national, sectoral, and s...

Chapter 14 Maintaining and Managing Public Infrastructure Assets »
Source: Well Spent : How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
ISBN: 9781513511818
Keywords: Infrastructure governance, investment efficiency, public investment management, public financial management
Introduction Chapter 3 focused on how improving infrastructure governance to produce better outcomes from existing assets is among the critical ways to close the glob...