Region: Global
Country: Global / Non-Specific
Keywords: PPP Data, Knowledge Lab, Annual Report
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Document Summary:
The Private Participation in Infrastructure Database is a product of the World Bank Group’s Infrastructure, PPPs and Guarantees team. Its purpose is to identify and disseminate information on private participation in infrastructure projects in low- and middle-income countries. The database highlights the contractual arrangements used to attract private investment, the sources and destination of investment flows, and information on the main investors. The site currently provides information on more than 8,000 infrastructure projects dating from 1984 to 2017. It contains over 50 fields per project record, including country, financial closure year, infrastructure services provided, type of private participation, technology, capacity, project location, contract duration, private sponsors, debt providers, and development bank support.
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2017 Key Highlights
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In 2017, private investment commitments in energy, transport, ICT backbone and wa- ter infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries totaled US$93.3 billion across 304 projects.
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Although the 37 percent increase in investments over the 2016 level could be a sign of re- covery, it is still the second-lowest level of investment in the past 10 years, and 15 percent below the average for the past five years.
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East Asia and Pacific received the highest level of investment while, respectively, Latin Amer- ica and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa received the lowest and the second-lowest levels of investment made in the past 10 years.
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52 countries received investments, with China, Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil, and Pakistan (the top five) accounting for 58 percent of the global total.
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In total, 105 projects received some form of development finance institution support.
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In total, 90 projects received direct government support and 45 received indirect govern- ment support.
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Of the total investment1, 70 percent was debt-financed, with 24 percent of this raised from bilateral providers, and 22 percent from commercial providers. Overall, international sourc- es financed 55 percent of the debt.
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Private sources financed 45 percent of investment, public sources financed 25 percent, and development finance institutions—which are both multilateral and bilateral—financed 30 percent.
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Of 197 electricity generation projects, 173 were in renewables, which accounted for 61 percent of total electricity generation investment, and 57 percent of total capacity (16.4 out of 28.9 gigawatts).
Updated: June 10, 2022