Public investment: a remedy or a curse? Examining the Role of Public Investment for Macroeconomic Performance
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Macroeconomic performance; Public debt; Public investment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2007-03-03 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2007-03-03 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2007-03-03 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
- NEP-PUB-2007-03-03 (Public Finance)
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