EIB Investment Report 2018/2019: Retooling Europe's economy

EIB Investment Report 2018/2019: Retooling Europe's economy
Author: European Investment Bank
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286138261

The Investment Report, issued annually by the European Investment Bank, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of investment and the financing of investment in the European Union. It combines the exploration of investment trends with in-depth analysis, focusing especially on the drivers and barriers to investment activity. The report leverages on a unique set of databases and survey data, including EIBIS, an annual survey of 12 500 firms in Europe, which focuses on their assessment of investment and investment finance conditions, and which allows analysis with firm balance sheet information. The report provides critical inputs to policy debates on the need for public action on investment, and on the types of intervention that can have the greatest impact. This year's report addresses a moment of economic recovery in which investment growth, overall, is strong, but downside risks to the economic outlook are rising. It identifies many ways in which current investment is still structurally inadequate, given the legacy effects of the recent crisis and the great challenges that lie ahead. There is an urgent need to re-tool Europe, from its infrastructure and innovation ecosystem, through to its businesses and workers, to enhance prosperity and social cohesion.

EIB Investment report 2018/2019: Retooling Europe's economy - Keyfindings

EIB Investment report 2018/2019: Retooling Europe's economy - Keyfindings
Author: European Investment Bank
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 928613925X

This document presents a summary of the key findings of the EIB Investment Report 2018/2019. As the bank's flagship research report, the Investment Report aims to deepen our understanding of investment and investment financing in the EU.

EIB Investment Report 2019/2020

EIB Investment Report 2019/2020
Author: European Investment Bank
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286144679

The Investment Report, issued annually by the European Investment Bank, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of investment and the financing of investment in the European Union. It combines the exploration of investment trends with in-depth analysis, focusing especially on the drivers and barriers to investment activity. The report leverages on a unique set of databases and survey data, including EIBIS, an annual survey of 13 500 firms in Europe, which focuses on their assessment of investment and investment finance conditions, and which allows analysis with firm balance sheet information. The report provides critical inputs to policy debates on the need for public action on investment, and on the types of intervention that can have the greatest impact.

EIB Investment Report 2020/2021

EIB Investment Report 2020/2021
Author: European Investment Bank
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286148127

The Europe Union's massive efforts to rebuild after the coronavirus pandemic present a unique opportunity to transform its economy, making it more green and digital – and ultimately more competitive. The Investment Report 2020-2021 looks at the toll the pandemic took on European firms' investment and future plans, as well as their efforts to meet the demands of climate change and the digital revolution. The report's analysis is based on a unique set of databases and data from a survey of 12 500 firms conducted in the summer of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. While providing a snapshot of the heavy toll the pandemic took on some forms of investment, the report also offers hope by pointing out the economic areas in which Europe remains strong, such as technologies that combine green and digital innovation.

OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2019

OECD Economic Surveys: Austria 2019
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264683585

Austrian citizens enjoy high living standards, well-being and social cohesion. Until the ongoing global slowdown, robust employment growth in the private sector kept domestic demand and investment remarkably robust. More people moved into work and inward migration has been strong. At the same time, new challenges related to social cohesion challenges have emerged, as increased skill differences in the population and diverging productivity performance across firms have generated a higher range of outcomes for job quality and market wages than in the past. Myriad entrepreneurial firms across all regions should better adapt to new megatrends of ageing, globalisation and digitalisation.

A European Public Investment Outlook

A European Public Investment Outlook
Author: Floriana Cerniglia
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800640145

This outlook provides a focused assessment of the state of public capital in the major European countries and identifies areas where public investment could contribute more to stable and sustainable growth. A European Public Investment Outlook brings together contributions from a range of international authors from diverse intellectual and professional backgrounds, providing a valuable resource for the policy-making community in Europe to feed their discussion on public investment. The volume both offers sector-specific advice and highlights larger areas which should be prioritized in the policy debate (from transport to social capital, R&D and the environment). The Outlook is structured into two parts: the chapters of Part I respectively explore public investment trends in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Europe as a whole, and illuminate how the legacy of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis is one of insufficient public investment. Part II investigates some areas into which resources could be channelled to reverse the recent trend and provide European economies with an adequate public capital stock. The essays in this outlook collectively foster a broad approach to and definition of public investment, that is today more relevant than ever. Offering up a timely and clear case for the elimination of bias against investment in European fiscal rules, this outlook is a welcome contribution to the European debate, aimed both at policy makers and general readers.

OECD Multi-level Governance Studies Strengthening Governance of EU Funds under Cohesion Policy Administrative Capacity Building Roadmaps

OECD Multi-level Governance Studies Strengthening Governance of EU Funds under Cohesion Policy Administrative Capacity Building Roadmaps
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264484825

This report recommends concrete actions for actors in the ESIF governance system to build and reinforce the administrative and investment management capacity of Managing Authorities throughout the EU. The findings can also benefit non-EU public actors in managing public investment.

Regional Development Banks in the World Economy

Regional Development Banks in the World Economy
Author: Judith Clifton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198861087

"Regional development banks (RDB) have become increasingly important in the world economy, but have also been relatively under-researched to date. This timely volume addresses this lack of attention by providing a comprehensive, comparative, and empirically informed analysis of their origins, evolution, and contemporary role in the world economy through to the second decade of the twenty-first century. The editors provide an analytical framework that includes a revised categorization of RDB by geographic operation and function. In part one, the chapter authors offer detailed analyses of the origins, evolution, and contemporary role of the major RDB, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Central American Bank, the Andean Development Corporation, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In part two, the authors engage in comparative analyses of key topics on RDB, examining their initial design and their changing business models, their shifting role in promoting policies supported by the United States as hegemon and the private sector. The volume ends with a critical reflection on the role played by RDB to date and a strong defence of the need for these banks in an increasingly complex world economy"--Publisher's description.

Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EU's Eastern Enlargement - Volume I

Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EU's Eastern Enlargement - Volume I
Author: Michael Landesmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030576868

This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. It also explores countries that are candidates for future EU membership. The speed of convergence of significant groups of low- and medium-income countries has never been as fast globally as it is today. Contributions by lead researchers of the area explore whether these countries are converging faster than their fundamentals and global trends would suggest because of EU membership, with its much tighter institutional and political anchorage

OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2019 Issue 1

OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2019 Issue 1
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9264319476

This issue includes a general assessment, a special chapter on the effects of digitalisation on productivity and a chapter summarising developments and providing projections for each individual country.