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Government spending policy --- Investment of public funds --- Expenditures, Public. --- United States --- Appropriations and expenditures.

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Ce rapport s'appuie sur des travaux menés sous l'égide du Comité des politiques de développement territorial de l'OCDE, dans le but d'articuler un  ensemble de principes cohérents, flexibles et efficaces pour la gouvernance pluri-niveaux des investissements publics.

Public investments. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Government investments --- Investments, Public --- Expenditures, Public --- Investments --- Capital budget --- Economic development projects --- Investment of public funds --- Finance

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Sri Lanka achieved middle-income-country status in January 2010, on the strength of of the economic growth fueled by the liberalization policy introduced in the late 1970s and pursued albeit unevenly in the following years. To continue growing, however, Sri Lanka needs to pay attention to its much neglected infrastructure. Accordingly, this report, aims to provide policy makers in Sri Lanka with a sound analytical basis for prioritizing investments and designing policy interventions that result in the mobilization of funds and their effective use for future development of Sri Lanka’s infrastructure, and also to improve understanding of the infrastructure sectors in Sri Lanka, including their current state and performance, future development needs, investment requirements and financing gaps, and bottlenecks to infrastructure development.The report assesses the country’s infrastructure endowment and performance, analyzes the contribution of infrastructure to economic and spatial development, and outlines investment needs and strategic priorities within those established by the Mahinda Chintana. It provides a cross-sectoral analysis of the major infrastructure cross-cutting themes including the link between infrastructure and poverty reduction and economic growth; the institutional and regulatory framework; the main issues regarding planning, coordination, and financing; and the role and constraints of private sector participation in infrastructure financing and service provision. It identifies bottlenecks to economic growth and considers policy issues to address them.

Economic development --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Public investments --- Government policy --- Government investments --- Investments, Public --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Expenditures, Public --- Investments --- Capital budget --- Economic development projects --- Investment of public funds --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Finance

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The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international legitimacy. Through a variety of case studies--from the China Investment Corporation to the funds of several Gulf states--the authors show that the forces propelling the adoption and development of sovereign wealth funds vary by country. The authors also show that many of these investment institutions have identifiable commonalities of form and function that match the core institutions of Western financial markets. The authors suggest that the international legitimacy of sovereign wealth funds is based on the degree to which their design and governance match Western expectations about investment management. Undercutting commonplace assumptions about the emerging world of the twenty-first century, the authors demonstrate that even small countries with large and globally oriented sovereign wealth funds are likely to play a significant role in international relations. Sovereign Wealth Funds considers how such financial organizations have altered not only the face of finance, but also the international geopolitical landscape.

Investments, Foreign --- Sovereign wealth funds --- Sovereign wealth funds. --- Capital exports --- Capital imports --- FDI (Foreign direct investment) --- Foreign direct investment --- Foreign investment --- Foreign investments --- International investment --- Offshore investments --- Outward investments --- Capital movements --- Investments --- Funds, Sovereign wealth --- SWFs (Sovereign wealth funds) --- Investment of public funds --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Asian financial crisis. --- Australia. --- China Investment Corporation. --- Dutch disease. --- East Asia. --- Future Fund. --- Generally Accepted Principles and Practices. --- Government Pension Fund-Global. --- Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. --- Gulf states. --- Middle East. --- Norway. --- Santiago Principles. --- Western interests. --- capitalism. --- capitalist development. --- domestic politics. --- economic geography. --- ethical policy. --- finance. --- financial crisis. --- financial institutions. --- financial markets. --- financialization. --- geopolitics. --- global finance. --- global financial system. --- governance. --- international political economy. --- international relations. --- investment decision making. --- investment ethics. --- investment management. --- investment practice. --- investment. --- long-term investment. --- nation-states. --- political economy. --- political temptation. --- resource revenue management. --- sovereign wealth funds. --- sovereignty. --- state-owned enterprises. --- state. --- trust. --- typology.

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Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies economize on spending without losing effectiveness by modifying the conceptual framework guiding state expenditures. The familiar framework says that state intervention is justified when the spending provides public goods or when the intervention addresses externalities, provided the social return is above a threshold. This paper argues that another consideration needs to be brought into the mix - whether, in spite of the externalities, the private sector has an incentive to undertake the activity. It is argued that these two considerations together define a more efficient framework under which to justify state intervention. According to this modified framework, even a benign state interested in social welfare would not in fact address every externality nor necessarily select expenditures with the highest social returns. These points are summarized in a graph which is then used to analyze policy rules, subsidies and effective interaction between the state and the private sector. It is hoped that this paper points to the kind of information that needs to be collected and acted upon so that states may achieve their goals more effectively.

Public investments. --- Welfare economics. --- Cost effectiveness. --- Benefit cost analysis --- Capital output ratios --- Cost benefit analysis --- Costs, Industrial --- Engineering economy --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy --- Government investments --- Investments, Public --- Expenditures, Public --- Investments --- Capital budget --- Economic development projects --- Investment of public funds --- Finance --- Public investments --- Welfare economics --- Cost effectiveness --- Subsidies --- Public goods --- Business subsidies --- Corporate subsidies --- Corporate welfare --- Government subsidies --- Grants --- Subventions --- Vouchers (Subsidies) --- Welfare, Corporate --- Government aid --- Foreign trade promotion --- Trade adjustment assistance --- Goods, Public --- Finance, Public --- Free rider problem (Economics) --- E-books --- Investments: General --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Allocative Efficiency --- Cost-Benefit Analysis --- Externalities --- Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government --- Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities --- Redistributive Effects --- Environmental Taxes and Subsidies --- Business Taxes and Subsidies --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures --- Other Public Investment and Capital Stock --- Investment --- Capital --- Intangible Capital --- Capacity --- Public Enterprises --- Public-Private Enterprises --- Public finance & taxation --- Civil service & public sector --- Public investment spending --- Public sector --- Return on investment --- Private investment --- Expenditure --- Economic sectors --- National accounts --- Saving and investment --- United States