Investing in public investment: an index of public investment efficiency

By Era Dabla‐Norris, Jim Brumby, A. Kyobe, Z. Mills, C. Papageorgiou. Journal of economic growth (Boston), 2012

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Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth (2011, unknown): “The construction of the index relies upon an extensive data collection effort as described in Dabla-Norris et al. (2011).7 The sources largely cover the 2007—2010 periods, and include 71 countries (40 low-income countries and 31 middleincome countries).”
Public capital in resource rich economies: is there a curse? (2014, background): “The IMF has recently developed a Public Investment Management Index which attempts to measure the quality of the public investment process, (Dabla-Norris et al., 2011).”
Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset (2023, unknown): “29 levels of public investment efficiency (Dabla-Norris et al. 2012).”
Gender Equality and Economic Growth in Brazil (2013, unknown): “Dabla-Norris et al. (2011, Table 1.a) estimate the efficiency parameter for public investment in Brazil,  , at 078. 28 Thus, according to these numbers, in Brazil more than 20 percent of public spending on infrastructure investment is “wasted,” in the sense that it does not turn into public capit”
Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries (2012, background): “Gelb (1988) studies six oil-exporting developing countries (Algeria, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, República Bolivariana de Venezuela) that undertook sizable investment projects between 1975 and 1978.”