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Managing Public Water Service in Medium-Sized African Cities

This note analyzes the experience of six African countries (Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda and Senegal) in creating the policy and institutional frameworks necessary to…

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AICD Country Report: Benin’s Infrastructure

This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world’s knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD provides a…

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AICD Country Report: Angola’s Infrastructure

This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world’s knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD provides a…

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Lusophone Africa: A new era for infrastructural development

The official website of Miranda Alliance Law Firm.

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PPIAF Assistance in Angola

The PPIAF Country Framework Report for Angola was finalized in December 2003. In particular, the report focuses on how to maximize the role and contribution of the private sector…

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Country Partnership Strategy for the Republic of Angola

The World Bank Group Country Partnerships Strategy for FY14-FY16 for Angola. 

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AICD Country Report: Côte d’Ivoire’s Infrastructure

This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world’s knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD provides a…

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Public Works at Work

This document is extracted from Handshake Issue #9: Reconstruction.

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Lessons from the Independent Private Power Experience in Pakistan

The discussion paper reviews the IPP program and concludes with several lessons learned. Se tting a bulk tariff ceiling allowed Pakistan to alleviate its power shortage through private generation in…

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Project Preparation and Feasibility Guidelines for PPP Projects in Pakistan

These guidelines apply to projects that fall within the ambit of PPP and are potentially commercially viable under the PPP modality. Projects that the private sector can do on its own without any…

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To Get to the Other Side

This document is extracted from Handshake Issue #7: Road & Rail.

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Cleaning up Thilafushi: Making the Maldives Carbon Neutral

This document is extracted from Handshake Issue #2: Climate.

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Partnerships IQ: Rooftop Solar PPPs - Lessons from Gujarat Solar

Rooftop solar PV (photovoltaic) provides access to green power for large numbers of people, using structures that already exist—a must for crowded urban sites where space is at a premium. Public-…

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Transforming Telecoms in Afghanistan: Expanding Affordable Access by Introducing Competition

PPIAF’s technical assistance facilitated the strengthening of the telecommunications regulatory unit within the Ministry of Communications.

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Afghanistan: DABS Kandahar

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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West Bank and Gaza: Solid Waste Management

This series provides an overview of public-private partnership stories in various infrastructure sectors, where IFC was the lead advisor.

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2014-2016 National Development Plan, West Bank and Gaza

The National Development Plan (NDP) is the State of Palestine's third tri-annual national plan. It reflects the further embedding of integrated planning and budgeting, a strategic reform through…

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Assessment of the Quality of the PPP Legislation and of the Effectiveness of its Implementation: Tunisia

This document provides the toolkit for the assessment of the quality of the PPP legislation and of the effectiveness of its implementation, Tunisia.

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Jordan: As-Samra Wastewater Plant Expansion

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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Privatization: Lessons from Jordan

While many governments in the Arab world have undertaken some privatizations since the early 1990s, many retain surprisingly large portfolios of fully, majority, or minority state-owned enterprises.…

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PPIAF Supports the Institutional and Policy Environment for PPPs in Jordan

PPIAF has supported the Government of Jordan to improve the institutional and policy environment for public-private partnerships (PPPs). The objective is to provide the enabling conditions for the…

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Iran's Experience of Health Cooperatives as a PPP Model in Primary Health Care: A Comparative Study in East Azerbaijan

 CHCs as a public private partnership model in Iran may deliver preventive health care services as effective as PHCs in many fields and even better in some areas.

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Prospects Abound - Interview with Dr. Behrouz Alishiri

An interview with Dr. Behrouz Alishirin published on the website of The Business Year.