Fostering Investment in Infrastructure: Lessons learned from OECD Investment Policy Reviews
This report has been prepared by the OECD with contributions from, among others: a network of high-level infrastructure practitioners gathered by the OECD and the African Development Bank (including institutional investors, infrastructure utilities, fund managers, regulators, Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions); Southern African Development Community (SADC); and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
OECD Investment Policy Reviews (IPRs) present an analysis of investment trends and policies in the countries reviewed. The reviews are based on the Policy Framework for Investment which raises issues for policy makers in ten policy areas which are widely recognised, including in the Monterrey Consensus, as underpinning a healthy environment for all investors, from smalland medium-sized firms to multinational enterprises. One of these key areas is infrastructure. This paper draws on 22 reviews undertaken in developing and emerging economies. It identifies actionable policy options to enhance the enabling environment for infrastructure investment, for the consideration of both host-country governments and their international partners. In 2014 this paper was contributed to the G20 Development Working Group (DWG). As a result, it is being used by the DWG as the starting point for initiating work on policy indicators on the enabling environment for infrastructure investment.
