Working Paper 365 - Public Investment Efficiency, Economic Growth and Debt Sustainability in Africa
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- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2022-12-12 (Africa)
- NEP-DGE-2022-12-12 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-FDG-2022-12-12 (Financial Development and Growth)
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