Grand-child term
These policies require the borrowing governments to address certain environmental and social risks in order to receive World Bank support for investment projects. We know from experience that including environmental and social considerations into project design and implementation improves development outcomes.
The methodology is based on a similar study of Latin America and the Caribbean published in 2009 and 2010. The index was built by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Asian Development Bank, Infrascope 2011 and 2014
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The Infrascope is an informational tool and benchmarking index that assesses the capacity of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to carry out sustainable public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure. The analysis and content of this index covers the period from May 2014 to August 2014. The index was built by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and is commissioned by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.
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By J. Delmon, World Bank 2005.
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Implementing Social Policy into Contracts_EN.pdf
Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects: Case Studies from the Republic of Korea, Asian Development Bank (ADB), May 2011.
The two-volume report was prepared by the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and presents an in-depth assessment of the different components of public-private partnersip (PPP) framework of the Republic of Korea, including comparing and contrasting the success factors of the Korean PPP model with the experience of other countries through invited presentations on PPP frameworks and multisector case studies.
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