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Investment Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty
While agreeing on the choice of an optimal investment decision is already difficult for any diverse group of actors, priorities, and world views, the presence of deep uncertainties further challenges…
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Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions: Doing it Right
The book breaks new ground in relation to the design and implementation of concession contracts by culling the lessons of experience from some 1,000 examples and assessing what these lessons mean for…
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Developing a Framework for Procurement Options Analysis (Chapter 21)
This chaper in Akintola Akintoye & Matthias Beck's 2009 book describes a market sounding exercise for a hypothetical example hospital PPP project.
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Are Public Private Partnerships Value for Money?
Determining value for money for a PPP is an area in which, despite strong criticisms by a number of academic writers of the methods used by practitioners to evaluate value for money, surprisingly…
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Discount debates: Rates, risk, uncertainty and value for money in PPPs
Grimsey, Darrin, and Mervyn K. Lewis. 2004. “Discount debates: Rates, risk, uncertainty and value for money in PPPs.” Public Infrastructure Bulletin 1(3). [#4271]
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The public private partnership paradox
A public private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement between government and the private sector, usually for the delivery of a piece of social infrastructure or a social service. Over the…
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Building a World-Class Infrastructure PPP Program in Puerto Rico
Interview with David Alvarez, executive director of the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority
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Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy: From Gaps to Solutions
Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy: From Gaps to Solutions covers the most important aspects of infrastructure investment in a decentralized setting. It discusses…
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Ordonnance 2004-559 sur les contrats de partenariat
L’ordonnance 2004-559 sur les contrats de partenariat énonce le cadre juridique et institutionnel des PPP en France. L’ordonnance 2008-735 incorpore…
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Africa’s Infrastructure : A Time for Transformation
This study is part of the Africa Infrastruc- ture Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world’s knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa.
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Preserving the Integrity of the PPP Model in Victoria, Australia, during the Global Financial Crisis
As in many markets, in Australia the global financial crisis substantially affected the cost and availability of financing for PPPs. As the crisis unfolded, Victoria sought to maintain the…
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Proyecto Fin de Master: Seguimiento de una concesión
Describes the Spanish methodology for the monitoring of PPP projects.
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Reglas de Operación, Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (Mexico)
El 7 de febrero de 2008 se publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el Decreto por el que se ordena la creación del Fideicomiso Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura, que será un vehículo de…
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Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects : Problems, Causes, and Cures
This paper focuses on problems and their causes and cures in policy and planning for large infrastructure projects. First, it identifies as the main problem in major infrastructure development…
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Megaprojects and risk: an anatomy of ambition
The authors not only explore the problems of mega projects, but also suggest practical solutions drawing on theory and hard, scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations…
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Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects: Error or Lie?
This global study of 258 transport projects finds that, on average, actual costs were 28 percent higher than planned costs—65 percent higher for projects outside Europe and North America. The paper…
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Public Sector Business Cases using the Five Case Model: A Toolkit
The publication of this Toolkit to the Business Case Production Process will assist all investing organisations in producing their business cases. It will, if used properly, help cut the cost of the…
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Fitch Expects to Rate Peruvian Securitization IIRSA Norte Finance Ltd 'BB'
CHICAGO--July 21, 2006--Fitch has assigned a preliminary rating of 'BB' to IIRSA Norte Finance Limited, a Peruvian securitization of government payment obligations in connection with a toll road…
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Outlook for Infrastructure Finance in South Korea
South Korea offers a maturing and interesting Asian-grown model for infrastructure finance. The country has developed a protective legal environment for private sector participation in infrastructure…
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The Promise and Peril of Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons from the Chilean Experience
This note is based on the work of Prof. Ron Fischer presented at the IGC Growth Forum in Rwanda on 17th February 2011, and his paper “The Promise and Peril of Public Private Partnerships: Lessons…
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Project Financing: Asset-Based Financial Engineering
As an effective alternative to conventional direct financing, project financing has become one of the hottest topics in corporate finance. It's being used more and more frequently—and more…
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European System of Accounts: ESA 2010
The new European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010) is a major development of the previous version of 1995. Progress has been achieved in the harmonisation of methodology and in the…
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Modern Project Finance: A Casebook
Written as a guide to a dynamic, and increasingly important field, Modern Project Finance: A Casebook provides a detailed description and analysis of project-financed transactions. Other books…
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Introduction to Islamic Finance
Provides a basic introduction to the principles of Islamic finance. Examines the religious background and legal foundations of Islamic finance. Also discusses the development of Islamic financial…
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Winners and Losers from Utility Privatization in Argentina: Lessons from a General Equilibrium Model
A computable general equilibrium (CQE) model is used to estimate the macroeconomic and distributional effects of the privatization and regulation of utilities in Argentina, begun in 1989