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The Fiscal Transparency Code
Manual on Fiscal Transparency. Manual for public sector disclosure of fiscal reporting. The manual provides a framework for responsibilities for transparency, the transparency of the budget…
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Manual on Fiscal Transparency (IMF. 2007)
Manual for public sector disclosure of fiscal reporting. The manual provides a framework for responsibilities for transparency, the transparency of the budget process, and openness and integrity of…
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Public-Private Partnerships: In Pursuit of Risk Sharing and Value for Money
Through a joint regulatory and budgetary perspective, this book undertakes a systematic analytical discussion of questions associated with PPPs. The aim is to provide governments with a toolkit…
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Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships: Addressing Infrastructure Challenges and Managing Fiscal Risks
This book grew out of a seminar on "Strengthening Public Investment and Managing Fiscal Risks from Public-Private Partnerships" that took place in Budapest during March 7-8, 2007. The seminar was…
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Fiscal Policy, Hidden Deficits, and Currency Crises
Budget deficits, as conventionally measured, suffer from many measurement and methodological problems. Researchers who have used these conventional deficits to explain currency crises, therefore,…
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Contingent Government Liabilities: A Hidden Risk For Fiscal Stability
Governments are facing increasing fiscal risks and uncertainties. There are four main ways governments can address fiscal risks: (a) control the contingent as well as direct, and implicit as…
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France - PPP Units and Related Institutional Framework (EPEC. 2012)
The report surveys the developments in PPP legislations and institutions in France. It describes the role of the central PPP unit (MAPPP) in relation with other PPP units in respective line…
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Dedicated PPP Unit of the South African Treasury (Burger, Philippe. 2006)
This paper provides a review of the PPP program in South Africa and its dedicated PPP unit.Dedicated public-private partnership (PPP) units are organizations set up with full or partial aid of the…
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Public-Private Partnership Agencies : A global perspective
A review of PPP units with a focus of experience of developed countries. The report includes case studies and reviews the key aspects of eight difference agencies.
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India: Building capacities for public private partnerships
The report reviews the international experience in developing capacities for PPPs, particularly on how capacities for identifying, procuring and managing PPPs are developed and could be further…
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Public–Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects: Case Studies from the Republic of Korea (Kim, Jay-Hyung, Jungwook Kim, Sunghwan Shin, and Seung-yeon Lee. 2011)
The Republic of Korea has rich experience in implementing PPP projects for almost a decade. This experience provides valuable lessons for most DMCs and that merits wider dissemination. The two-volume…
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Public-Private Partnership Units: What Are They, And What Do They Do?
A short note reviewing several country experiences with PPP units, and provides high-level recommendations to improve governance and their effectiveness.
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Public Private Partnership Units: Lessons for their design and use in infrastructure
This report originated as part of a joint initiative between the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department of the World…
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Implementing a framework for managing fiscal commitments from public-private partnerships
This note provides guidance on managing fiscal risks from PPPs during approval and implementation. The note provides practical adivce on how to: consistently identify and assess fiscal commitments…
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A Framework for evaluating the implementation of Private Finance Initiative projects
This current best practice model sets out six functions used to manage complex capital investment programmes, the tasks associated with each, what good looks like, and case studies of how Departments…
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Climate Change and Natural Disasters
The risk of natural disasters affects infrastructure projects and must be considered throughout the project cycle. Climate change introduces additional challenges by increasing uncertainty and the…
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Infrastructure in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Countries are classified as fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) for diverse reasons. The OECD Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States (OECD 2007c) describe FCS as facing…
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Inadequate Maintenance
Infrastructure assets are often under-maintained, either because maintenance is poorly planned or because planned maintenance is deferred. Political consideration or pursuit of personal gain often…
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Weak Management
A common rationale for involving the private sector in infrastructure provision is that the private sector is more efficient and effective at managing infrastructure construction projects, and at…
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Poor Planning and Project Selection
Scarce resources are too often spent on poorly-selected projects that fail to achieve benefits commensurate with their cost. The result can be under-used assets and poor service delivery at a higher…
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Insufficient Funds
Infrastructure investment is typically under-funded—that is, most countries are not investing enough to meet strategic objectives, such as universal access or poverty eradication. This suggests that…
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How PPPs Are Used: Sectors and Services
PPPs have been used in a wide range of sectors to procure different kinds of assets and services. In all cases, the PPP project constitutes or contributes to the provision of public assets or…
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What PPP is Not: Other Types of Private Involvement
Besides defining the essence and the main features of PPPs, it is also helpful to clarify what they are not. This is useful to help us understand why the various features of the PPP model all…
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Decreto Ley 1467 de 2012 (CO. 2012c)
Establishes the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura), which is in charge of identifying, assessing the viability, and proposing concessions and other forms of PPPs…
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ICC Project Evaluation Procedures and Guidelines (NEDA. 2005b)
ICC Project Evaluation Procedures and Guidelines. Manila: National Economic and Development Authority.