Burkina Faso: Selected Issues
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Summary:
This Selected Issues paper examines the impact of scaled-up public investment in Burkina Faso. The results suggest that “big-push” investment efforts, while designed to accelerate growth, are likely to run up against significant absorption-capacity constraints. These constraints will diminish the efficiency of investment spending and result in lower public capital accumulation and productivity growth than under a more measured approach. The empirical evidence from the experience of many countries also suggests that the results of aggressive scaling-up initiatives are mixed.
Series:
Country Report No. 2016/391
Subject:
Civil service Expenditure Labor Public employment Public investment spending Wage adjustments Wages
Notes:
English
Publication Date:
December 22, 2016
ISBN/ISSN:
9781475562590/1934-7685
Stock No:
1BFAEA2016003
Pages:
23
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