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Technical Guidance Note on Assessing the Welfare and Distributional Impacts of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Interventions
This Note introduces key evaluation approaches and methods that can produce credible evidence about the welfare and distributional impacts of infrastructure interventions. Evaluating both types of…
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Mobilization of Private Finance by Multilateral Development Banks 2018 Joint Report
This year’s report contains results that support the recent United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force findings on Financing for Development that, while “there is progress” on increasing financing for…
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Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy: From Gaps to Solutions
Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy: From Gaps to Solutions covers the most important aspects of infrastructure investment in a decentralized setting. It discusses…
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (AAAA)
The final text of the outcome document adopted at the Third Internatinal Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13–16 July 2015) and endorsed by the General Assembly in its…
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Fostering Investment in Infrastructure: Lessons learned from OECD Investment Policy Reviews
This report has been prepared by the OECD with contributions from, among others: a network of high-level infrastructure practitioners gathered by the OECD and the African Development Bank (including…
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Mainstreaming Gender in Infrastructure: Desk Review
This study conducts an exploratory review of the literature on infrastructure and gender to discuss best practices and lessons learned for mainstreaming gender and identify gender gaps. The…
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Megaprojects and Risk
Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically…
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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Management of Highway Assets
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Management of Highway Assets documents the state of the practice of life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and risk-based analysis into state highway agencies' asset management…
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Closing the Infrastructure Gap: The World Bank Group
Reducing the infrastructure gap requires improvements in efficiency and quality of public investment in infrastructure and mobilization of public and private finance. On April 16, 2016 the MDBs…
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Non-Revenue Water Analysis and Reduction: Water Balance Easy Calc Tool
This is an Excel tool that helps the user to perform a water balance of an utility – a necessary starting point for non-revenue water analysis and reduction.
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The Use of Islamic Debt in Energy Sector Projects
This is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group and the Islamic Development Bank.
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Private equity and value creation
The study finds that, even after considering such timing effects, improvements in operational efficiency and revenue growth are strongly associated with higher investor returns. Firms in the EBRD…
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Contingent Liabilities Risk Management: A Credit Risk Analysis Framework for Sovereign Guarantees and On-Lending
This paper proposes a four-step structure for analyzing and measuring credit risk: (i) defining key characteristics to determine the choice of a risk analysis approach; (ii) analyzing risk drivers; (…
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Results-Based Finance for Last Mile Infrastructure
The presentation on Results-Based Finance for Last Mile Infrastructure delivered by Charis Lypiridis, Infrastructure Specialist.
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Strategic Infrastructure Planning: International Best Practice
This report reviews the experience with strategic infrastructure planning in a selection of countries and complements that analysis with a discussion of how strategic planning is conducted in the…
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Fiscal Risk in PPPs: Defining the Problem
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) can sometimes be perceived as a means for delivering infrastructure for free. A more nuanced view is that they are a mechanism to overcome fiscal constraints, a…
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The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023
The website provides the atlas of sustainable development goals 2023.
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Infrastructure PPPs in the most challenging developing countries: Closing the gap
This publication is one international development practitioner’s experience over several decades on the ground in some of the world’s lower-income developing countries, including fragile and conflict…
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Study on tariff design for distribution systems
This report presents the results of the Study on Tariff Design for Distribution Systems commissioned by DG Energy to the consortium of AF‐Mercados, REF‐E and Indra.
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Wheeling and Banking Strategies for Optimal Renewable Energy Deployment: International Experiences
This paper defines the principles of wheeling (i.e., transmission) tariffs and renewable energy (RE) banking provisions and their role in RE deployment in countries with plans for large-scale RE. It…
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Risk Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment
This report is designed to help policy-makers, multilateral and bilateral financial institutions and the private sector to navigate and understand the current state of affairs of Risk Mitigation…
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Climate change and Disaster Resilience: Pacific Possible
Pacific Island countries face unique development challenges. They are far away from major markets, often with small populations spread across many islands and vast distances, and are at the forefront…
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Non-Revenue Water Financial Model
A financial model for calculation of non-revenue water program.
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Scaling Infrastructure: New Tools for a New Strategy
This report provides lessons learned from IFC's PPP Projects following the approach of "Scaling".
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Benchmarking City Services: Finding the Courage to Improve
This report offers a summary of our findings. In total, 35 different cities participated, representing almost all geographic regions and sizes. Not all cities were able to collect data for all…