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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body for assessing the science related to climate change. The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological…

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Best Practices on Contract Design in Public-Private Partnerships

One of the most important issues in designing a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contract for infrastructure projects is the allocation of the project’s risks between the public and private parties.…

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International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions website

The International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) provides an online list of its member audit entities.

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ISSAI 5220 - Guidelines on Best Practice for the Audit of Public/Private Finance and Concessions

Provides guidelines on best practices for evaluating PPP projects throughout the entire life cycle  

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IFC Infraventures: The IFC Global Infrastructure Project Development Fund

IFC InfraVentures is a $150 million global infrastructure project development fund that has been created as part of World Bank Group’s efforts to increase the pipeline of bankable projects in…

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Institutional Investment in Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

This study discusses the role of institutional investors in financing infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It analyses the actual involvement and the future investment…

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Fiscal Transparency Code

The IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code (the Code) is the international standard for disclosure of information about public finances. The Code comprises a set of principles built around four pillars (…

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Update on the Fiscal Transparency Initiative

The IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code (the Code) is the international standard for disclosure of information about public finances

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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 process, and openness and integrity of…

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IFC Advisory Services in PPPs : SmartLessons Lessons from Our Work in Infrastructure, Health and Education

This publication highlights some of IFC's PPP experience and lessons learned in working on more than 277 projects in 88 countries over 21 years. Includes lessons in power, water, transport, and…

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IPSAS 19 - Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets

International Public Sector Accounting Standards was introduced in 2011. The International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS) sets out the accounting requirements of the grantor in a service…

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Database of ICSID Panels

The ICSID Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators consist of designees of the ICSID Contracting States and of the Chairman of the Administrative Council. Each Contracting State may designate up to…

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The Law and Business of International Project Finance

This 2007 third edition continues to be a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the business, practice, law, and practical use of project finance. It covers the complete project finance structure…

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Investment Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty

While agreeing on the choice of an optimal investment decision is already difficult for any diverse group of actors, priorities, and world views, the presence of deep uncertainties further challenges…

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Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions: Doing it Right

The book breaks new ground in relation to the design and implementation of concession contracts by culling the lessons of experience from some 1,000 examples and assessing what these lessons mean for…

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Developing a Framework for Procurement Options Analysis (Chapter 21)

This chaper in Akintola Akintoye & Matthias Beck's 2009 book describes a market sounding exercise for a hypothetical example hospital PPP project.

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Are Public Private Partnerships Value for Money?

Determining value for money for a PPP is an area in which, despite strong criticisms by a number of academic writers of the methods used by practitioners to evaluate value for money, surprisingly…

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Discount debates: Rates, risk, uncertainty and value for money in PPPs

Grimsey, Darrin, and Mervyn K. Lewis. 2004. “Discount debates: Rates, risk, uncertainty and value for money in PPPs.” Public Infrastructure Bulletin 1(3). [#4271]

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The public private partnership paradox

A public private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement between government and the private sector, usually for the delivery of a piece of social infrastructure or a social service. Over the…

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Water Sector Experience of Output-Based Aid

The purpose of the study on which this report is based is to analyze, capture and synthesize lessons learned from closed GPOBA water projects in order to evaluate the impact of the subsidy schemes…

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Green Climate Fund

International financing instruments include the Green Climate Fund, which allocates resources to climate-resilient and low emission projects and programs. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s…

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Budgeting and reporting for public-private partnerships

Discussion paper with the aim to contribute to the understanding of the transport sector and to provide inputs to transport policy design.

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The Issues and Challenges of Reducing Non-Revenue Water

Chronic water losses have been the hallmark of urban Asia’s water management over the decades and reducing these water losses is critical. Active water loss reduction programs have been…