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Ukraine: Odessa Port

This series showcases how the World Bank Group supports the development and implementation of public-private partnerships. This support comes in the form of public sector loans, private sector…

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Using the Right Tools: Risk Allocation Tool

Presentations for the Third Global Roundtables on Infrastructure Governance and Tools

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PPPs and State Aid

This report has been written to help PPP practitioners understand more about how State aid policy interacts with the procurement and delivery of PPPs. The intention of the report is to be as…

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The Legal Regime of Utility Services and Public-Private Partnership in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The author analyzes the state regulation of utilities and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and points to the different models of implementation of the PPP, as well as…

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Contract farming and public–private partnerships in aquaculture: Lessons learned from East African countries

This report presents the lessons learned from a project in four East African countries – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – focusing on youth and their agribusinesses. In Burundi and Rwanda, poultry…

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Technology to Improve Infrastructure Governance - A Perspective of Indian Power System

Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance Regulation, Governance and Transparency

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Common Transport Infrastructure: A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative

This paper presents a structural general equilibrium model to analyze the effects on trade, welfare, and gross domestic product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on…

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Protecting Your PPP: Stabilizing partnerships in uncertain times

This article is extracted from Handshake Issue #16: Innovation.

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Brownfield infrastructure projects

The documents analyzes several issues concerning brownfield infrastructure projects.A brownfield infrastructure project entails taking over an existing asset that needs to be refurbished,…

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PPP Risk Allocation Tool 2019 Edition - Energy, Communications and Industrial Parks

This guidance tool is aimed to be used in conjunction with the World Bank’s Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions 2019 Edition.

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Building Resilience to Climate Change: Investing in Adaptation

This paper presents the methodology for climate resilience audits, which provide a basis to identify, propose and discuss technical and investment solutions with the client.

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Value for Money: Identifying/Screening PPP Proposals in South Africa

In 1997, the South African Cabinet approved an inter-departmental task team to create a package of policy, legislative, and institutional reforms to create an enabling environment for PPPs. To…

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The Price of Easy Money

This article is extracted from Handshake Issue #17: Data.

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Service delivery and public-private partnership in Addis Ababa exhibition center and market development enterprise: prospectis and challenges

The research aimed at developing practical implications for policy makers and practitioners, who are engaged in assessing possibilities of PPPs, managing PPPs, monitoring PPPs as well as evaluating…

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Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs

This is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group and the Islamic Development Bank.

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Powering Rural Africa

The Zenzaminga hydro project aims to replace the current use of generators burning diesel to produce electricity. 

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Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing research focuses on the effects of Western development…

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Public-Private Partnerships in Brazil after the Rio Olympic Games

World Bank's Open Learning Campus introduces the Public-Private Partnerships in Brazil after the Rio Olympic Games.

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Public–Private Partnership Systems in the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia

This paper analyzes the public–private partnership (PPP) systems in the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

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A guidebook on the compliance review function of ADB’s accountability mechanism for private sector borrowers

ADB’s Accountability Mechanism has two functions: problem solving and compliance review. This guidebook explains the compliance review function in detail.