02575cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019133 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781498302883 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Gurara, Daniel. Some Policy Lessons from Country Applications of the DIG and DIGNAR Models / Daniel Gurara, Giovanni Melina, Luis-Felipe Zanna. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (45 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Over the past seven years, the DIG and DIGNAR models have complemented the IMF and World Bank debt sustainability framework (DSF) analysis, over 65 country applications. They have provided useful insights in the context of program and surveillance work, based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of the macroeconomic effects of public investment scaling-ups. This paper takes stock of the model applications and extensions, and extract five common policy lessons from the universe of country cases. First, improving public investment efficiency and/or raising the rate of return of public projects raises growth and lowers the risks associated with debt sustainability. Second, prudent and gradual investment scaling-ups are preferable to aggressive front-loaded ones, in terms of private sector crowding-out effects, absorptive capacity constraints, and debt sustainability risks. Third, domestic revenue mobilization helps create fiscal space for investment scaling-ups, by effectively containing public debt surges and their later-on repayments. Fourth, aid smoothens fiscal adjustments associated with public investment increases and may lower the risks of unsustainable debt. Fifth, external savings mitigate Dutch disease macroeconomic effects and serve as fiscal buffers. The paper also discusses how these models were used to estimate the quantitative macro economic effects associated with these lessons. Mode of access: Internet Melina, Giovanni. Zanna, Luis-Felipe. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/062 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/062/001.2019.issue-062-en.xml IMF e-Library