TY - BOOK ID - 84544196 TI - The Great Rebalancing Act : Can Investment Be a Lever in Asia? AU - Nabar, Malhar. AU - Syed, Murtaza. AU - International Monetary Fund AU - International Monetary Fund. PY - 2011 SN - 1462319254 146234447X 1283566885 9786613879332 1455217832 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Investments KW - Economic development KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Infrastructure KW - Investments: General KW - Industries: Service KW - Investment KW - Capital KW - Intangible Capital KW - Capacity KW - Industry Studies: Services: General KW - Macroeconomics KW - Private investment KW - Services sector KW - Return on investment KW - Gross fixed investment KW - Saving and investment KW - Service industries KW - Japan UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84544196 AB - Ensuring stable growth in the postcrisis world economy will require a rebalancing of economic activity in several countries. In Asia’s export-dependent economies, this entails relying more on private domestic demand as a driver of growth. While some countries need to raise consumption, several need to raise investment or reorient it from tradable to nontradable sectors. These changes in investment could be facilitated by financial reforms that enhance domestically oriented firms’ access to credit, stronger incentives for corporate restructuring, policies to bolster the business climate and reduce uncertainty, and by improvements in infrastructure that raise the returns to private investment. ER -