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Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation
A Report of the Center for Global Development Working Group on Contract Publication. This report documents examples of the benefits of contract transparency and how contract publication…
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Why Infrastructure is Key to the Success of the SDGs
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals and infrastructure appears both as an explicit goal and as an implicit means to implement and achieve other SDGs…
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Until debt do us part: Subnational debt, insolvency, and markets
This book brings together the reform experiences of emerging economies and developed countries. The book examines the interaction of markets, regulators, subnational borrowers, creditors, national…
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The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Public-Private Partnerships
The paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the circumstances under which providing support to new and existing projects is justified.
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How To Attain Value for Money: Comparing PPP and Traditional Infrastructure Public Procurement.
HOW TO ATTAIN VALUE FOR MONEY: COMPARING PPP AND TRADITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Annual OECD network meeting of Senior PPP Officials in Paris 12-13 April, 2010. By Philippe Burger and…
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Tolling Principles
Highway tolls can provide a new, stable and dedicated source of funding of highway infrastructure. By applying the ‘user pays’ principle, governments can direct scarce budget resources elsewhere and…
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Making Informed Investment Decisions in an Uncertain World
Governments invest billions of dollars annually in long-term projects. Yet deep uncertainties pose formidable challenges to making near-term decisions that make longterm sense. Methods that identify…
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Cost-Benefit Analysis, 4th Edition
A practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. This authoritative, market-leading text is known for its consistent application of a nine-step framework for conducting…
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The Allocation of Risk in PPP/PFI Construction Projects in the UK
Public-private partnership (PPP) procurement is seen as an effective way to achieve value for money (VFM) in public infrastructure projects. The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK is a form…
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The Key to Good Governance and Development.
Public-private dialogue (PPD) provides a structured, participatory, and inclusive approach to policymaking directed at reforming governance and the business climate, especially where other policy…
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Regulation by Contract: A New Way to Privatize Electricity Distribution?
In many developing countries, both governments and investors have expressed disappointment with the performance of recently privatized electricity distribution companies. This paper examines whether…
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Traffic Forecasting Risk Study Update 2005: Through Ramp-Up and Beyond
Traffic Forecasting Risk Study Update 2005: Through Ramp-Up And Beyond. Since 2002, Standard & Poor's has been compiling data on toll road traffic forecasting performance, comparing…
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The Infrastructure Report Card website
The Infrastructure Report Card website discusses several key criteria regarding infrastructure quality: level of maintenance, capacity, physical condition, funding, public safety,…
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Climate Screening and Adaptation Review and Evaluation Procedures
Provides an overview of AfDB’s Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy which includes climate screening at the project preparation level.
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Public-Private Partnership Handbook (ADB)
This Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Handbook is designed for the staff of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries’ clients. It provides an overview of the role, design…
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Handbook for Integrating Risk Analysis in the Economic Analysis of Projects
The purpose of this Handbook is to support the development of a practical and operationally relevant methodological framework for the analysis of risk in project design and project economic analysis.
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Handbook for the Economic Analysis of Water Supply Projects
Water is rapidly becoming a scarce resource in almost all countries and cities with growing population on the one hand, and fast growing economies, commercial and developmental activities…
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ADB - Safeguards
ADB's environmental and social safeguards are a cornerstone of its support to inclusive economic growth and environmental sustainability in Asia and Pacific. In July 2009, ADB's Board of Directors…
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A Guide to Contract Management for PFI and PPP Projects
The aim of the guide is to be a user-friendly, quick reference strategic route map for local authority project directors and contract managers who are in the process of procuring and managing…
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Global Infrastructure Forum 2017 - Publications
This 2017 forum was co-hosted by the European Investment Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank and held in IDB headquarters in Washington, DC on April 22, 2017.
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2016 Global Infrastructure Forum
This 2016 forum was the first time that the heads of all of the MDBs came together on a stage to discuss infrastructure, reflecting the importance of the topic, and their commitment to multilateral…
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2018 Global Infrastructure Forum - Outcomes & Statements
This 2018 forum was hosted by the Asian Development Bank and held at the Laguna Villas in Bali, Indonesia on October 13, 2018.
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Webinars on Legal and Regulatory Framework in PPPs
The World Bank Group's Open Learning Campus (OLC) hosts a series of webinars relating to legal and regulatory frameworks in PPPs.
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PPIAF-Resources
Public- Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, Website. The PPIAF website includes reviews of PPP projects in several developing countries.
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Innovation : Handshake, A Journal on Public-Private Partnerships
The International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Handshake series comprises quarterly publications, each focusing on the use of PPPs in a different sector or context.