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Procurement and Renegotiation of Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure: Evidence, Typology and Tendencies
Law and Economics of Public Procurement Reforms collects the original contributions related to the new European Union Directives approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament, 1st ed., edited by Gustavo Piga…
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Going Beyond the Infrastructure Funding Gap: A South African Perspective
This report, Going Beyond the Infrastructure Funding Gap - A South African Perspective, quantifies the spending needed in education, transport, and water and sanitation to achieve the related SDGs.
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Infrastructure in Africa: How Institutional Reforms Can Attract More Private Investment
Infrastructure is a crucial driver of development, through its role in stimulating private investment and productivity growth, facilitating domestic, regional, and international trade, and protecting…
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Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scorecard
This paper provides a scorecard on infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades along four sectors (telecommunications, electric power, transportation, and water and…
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Well Spent: How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Based on the Fund’s work, including Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) in over 60 countries, the book explores how better governance can lead to quality infrastructure outcomes. It…
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The Infrastructure Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean: Investment Needed Through 2030 to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals
This report, The Infrastructure Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean: Investment Needed Through 2030 to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals, aims to estimate the amount that Latin America and…
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Nature-Based Solutions for Ports: An Overview of NBS Implementation in Practice - Opportunities and Challenges
This report provides an overview of the potential role that nature-based solutions (NBS) can play in ports. It aims to illustrate how NBS can be effectively integrated into port planning, design, and…
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Structure - Primer on Project Development Funds
A PDF’s structure is a key determinant of its effectiveness and ability to ensure the quality and efficiency of project preparation. However, PDFs function within and alongside the broader PPP…
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Executive Summary - Primer on Project Development Funds
Executive SummaryProject development funds (PDFs) are dedicated vehicles that governments establish to systematically support the preparation of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The lack of…
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Introduction - Primer on Project Development Funds
Introduction Governments are constrained in their ability to invest sufficiently in infrastructure development. Governments have long been unable to meet infrastructure investment needs due to…
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Motivations and Experience - Primer on Project Development Funds
Constrained financial resources are a key impediment to the preparation of bankable projects and the overall success of PPP programs.1 The allocation of additional, dedicated funding to PPP project…
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Funding - Primer on Project Development Funds
PDFs are often thought of primarily as a funding source. Although it is clear that PDFs are much more than this, decisions related to how PDFs are funded, and the quantum of funds they are able to…
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Lessons for Practitioners - Primer on Project Development Funds
There is no one “right” PDF design, only a PDF design which best supports project preparation in a particular jurisdiction. PDFs take a wide range of forms, whether an independent legal entity with…
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Operational Considerations - Primer on Project Development Funds
Once critical design decisions are taken around how a PDF is structured, how it is funded, and the nature of projects it will support, there remain a wide range of PDF operational issues that need to…
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List of Government PDFs (Annex) - Primer on Project Development Funds
CountryRelevant FundTypeBrazilSupport Fund for Structuring and Development of Concession and PPP Projects (FEP) Project Development Division (AEP), including the Project Structuring Fund and the…
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Project Selection - Primer on Project Development Funds
A key motivation of PDFs, as noted in Chapter 2, is to improve the quality and efficiency of PPP project preparation through the provision of PPP advisory services. Decisions related to the nature of…
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Toolkits for Policymakers to Green the Financial System
The World Bank’s 2021 report, Toolkits for Policymakers to Green the Financial System, provides an overview of policy tools available to public authorities—such as finance ministries, central banks,…
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Blended Finance can Catalyze Renewable Energy Investments in Low-Income Countries
Achieving the SDGs requires large-scale investment in developing countries. Blended finance—using concessional public funds to attract private investment—helps de-risk projects and enable impactful…
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Outcome-Based Concessional Blended Finance for Sustainable Financing: Key Lessons and Insights from Latin America
This study by CIF-TAF and IDB Invest explores how outcome-based concessional blended finance, paired with technical assistance, can drive sustainability in financial institutions (FIs). Using…
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Infrastructure Finance Learning Features
Coming Soon: AI-Generated Curricula on Infrastructure Finance & PPPsWith such a vast array of resources, smart tools are essential. That’s why we’re developing AI-driven solutions to deliver a…
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About Infrastructure Finance Learning
Global Best Practice Knowledge on Private Solutions for Public InfrastructureWelcome to one of the most extensive repositories of know-how on infrastructure finance. It covers topics from PPP to…
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The PPPRC Asset Recycling Section
Asset Recycling – Projects and ProgramsInfrastructure development is crucial for the continued economic growth and prosperity of emerging markets and developed economies (EMDEs). The demand for…
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People First Public Private Partnerships (PfPPPs) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs): an African perspective
People-First PPPs (PfPPPs) set out a clear statement that out of all the project stakeholders, people should be the priority and main beneficiary. The focus of PfPPPs should be in increasing access…
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Developing Insurance Markets: The Insurance Sector’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
The paper has a twofold purpose. First, to help regulators and insurance policymakers in emerging markets make the case for supporting insurance market development through drawing more attention to…