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Overcoming Barriers to Finance for Municipalities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Municipalities in low- and middle-income countries confront financing needs that greatly exceed available flows. Currently, most investment in municipal infrastructure is financed directly from…
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Mini Grids for Half a Billion People: Market Outlook and Handbook for Decision Makers
Approximately 1.2 billion people will need to gain access to electricity to achieve universal access by 2030. The only way to achieve this is through a combination of the main grid extension, mini…
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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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Public Private Partnerships - Construction, Protection, and Rehabilitation of Critical Infrastructure
This book provides examples and case studies demonstrating the application of public-private partnerships in the US, Europe, and Asia, discusses the potential for private sector investment in…
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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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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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World Development Report 2021 : Data for Better Lives
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to…
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Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scorecard
This paper provides a scorecard on infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades along four sectors (telecommunications, electric power, transportation, and water and…
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Well Spent: How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Based on the Fund’s work, including Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) in over 60 countries, the book explores how better governance can lead to quality infrastructure outcomes. It…
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Public-Private Partnerships for Investment and Delivery of Affordable Housing in Emerging Market Economies
Context: The Evolving Role of the Public Sector in Housing MarketsThis study assist World Bank task teams, housing practitioners andpolicy makers in guiding the public-private provision of affordable…
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Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation
This book discusses the role of public-private partnerships in global transportation infrastructure
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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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Women, Business and the Law 2026: Benchmarking Laws for Jobs and Inclusive Growth
Women, Business and the Law 2026 is the 11th in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and policies that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies.
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Infrastructure Foundations: From Current Assets to Future Growth
Infrastructure lies at the heart of development. Reliable energy systems, efficient transport networks, and robust digital connectivity are essential for economic growth, job creation, social…
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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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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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TOD City Academy
The event was a two-day interactive workshop, organized within the framework of GPSC’s 3rd Global Meeting, that brought together government officials from 12 Latin American and Caribbean cities and 4…
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Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as…
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Projects and Programs Manual to Encourage Cycling in Communities
Cycling is already an important part of daily life many of Brazil’s urban residents. To grow the country’s cycling culture as well as provide better conditions for users, EMBARQ Brazil developed this…
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Transit-Oriented Development Toolkit
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an integrated approach to urban planning that aligns transport, land use, and urban design to create compact, connected, and livable cities. By concentrating…