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From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa
Most Sub-Saharan African countries try to promote rural electrification through both centralized and decentralized approaches. This guide focuses on the decentralized approach, providing practical…
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PPPLRC 2018 Report
In 2018, the site continued to get high traffic, including 1,400,736 views over 596,584 unique visitors. Close to 210,000 visitors had an “interaction” with the site, such as downloading a document,…
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A Governance Framework for Climate-Relevant Public Investment Management
This report explains why strengthening the governance around public investment management is central to cutting inefficiencies and unblocking the climate finance needed to narrow Asia and the Pacific…
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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State and Trends in Climate Adaptation Finance 2024
Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) report reviews overs global status and trends of adaptation finance and provides a deeper analysis of Africa at a regional level, given the heightened adaptation…
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Escaping the fragility trap
Escaping the Fragility Trap. Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. London: International Growth Centre. LSE-Oxford. 2018.
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Business Environment Reforms in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: What Works and Why?
Economies that are suffering from fragility, conflict and violence (three distinct yet interconnected elements of FCS) confront intractable poverty, and faltering growth – missing out on development…
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Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives
Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives is a compendium of articles written by members of the PBC taskforce.
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What triggers public-private partnership (PPP) renegotiations in the United States?
Public-private partnership (PPP) renegotiations and their outcomes have been studied extensively in Latin America and Europe but not in the United States.
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World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
In a time when development progress has dipped to its weakest pace in 75 years, artificial intelligence (AI) offers developing economies a rare path to greater prosperity. World Development Report…
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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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Learning in Twenty-First Century Schools: Note 4: Public-Private Partnerships in School Infrastructure in the Caribbean
Public-Private Partneships in School Infrastructure in the Caribbean
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Public-Private Partnerships in Ports: Main Figures and Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
Public-Private Partnerships in Ports: Main Figures and Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Public-Private Partnerships in Airports in Latin America and the Caribbean: Main Figures and Trends in the Sector
This publication describes how Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have become a key mechanism for airport development across Latin America and the Caribbean. PPPs have played a significant role in…
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Public-private partnerships financed by the European Investment Bank from 1990 to 2024
This report is part of EPEC’s work on monitoring developments on the PPP market. It is intended to provide an overview of the role played by the EIB in financing PPP projects inside and outside…
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How to Prepare and Execute Performance Based Contracts for Road Asset Management - For Advanced Users
Robust road transport systems are indispensable for driving both economic growth and social inclusion. Yet, several critical challenges often impede the full realization of road investments’…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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Bus Rapid Transit in China: A Comparison of Design Features with International Systems
As the recent white paper on China’s transport for the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016–2020) states, China must set higher standards for the transport development to “realize the Chinese Dream of…
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Governance of Inclusive Transit-Oriented Development in Brazil
Transit-oriented development (TOD)—a planning strategy focused on building compact, mixed-use neighborhoods with access to high-quality public transport and mobility options—is key to sustainable…
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TOD Implementation Resources and Tools
Transit-oriented development, commonly known as TOD, is a planning and design strategy that focuses on creating urban development patterns which facilitate the use of public transit,walking and…
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Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective…
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Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities
Urbanization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, making sustainable and efficient urban planning critical. Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities offers a comprehensive…
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TOD Guide for Communities
This TOD Guide for Urban Communities shares the best practice guidelines in transit oriented development around the world. This publication summarizes 28 concrete design recommendations for transit…
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Cities are Taking on Electric Buses: How the FSCI Helps Accelerate the Transition
Each day, a quarter million people around the world rely on diesel-fueled buses to reach their destinations. For decades, these buses have been the backbone of public transit fleets in cities. But…
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Rail Plus Property Development in China: the Pilot Case of Shenzhen
China’s cities face significant challenges in financing the growth of urban transit infrastructure. The current practice of financing urban metro or subway projects through municipal fiscal revenues…