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Presentation: Beyond the Gap – How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need While Protecting the Planet
Presentation for the Third Global Roundtables on Infrastructure Governance and Tools
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PPPs and State Aid
This report has been written to help PPP practitioners understand more about how State aid policy interacts with the procurement and delivery of PPPs. The intention of the report is to be as…
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Climate Change and Natural Disasters
The risk of natural disasters affects infrastructure projects and must be considered throughout the project cycle. Climate change introduces additional challenges by increasing uncertainty and the…
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Infrastructure in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Countries are classified as fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) for diverse reasons. The OECD Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States (OECD 2007c) describe FCS as facing…
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Inadequate Maintenance
Infrastructure assets are often under-maintained, either because maintenance is poorly planned or because planned maintenance is deferred. Political consideration or pursuit of personal gain often…
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Weak Management
A common rationale for involving the private sector in infrastructure provision is that the private sector is more efficient and effective at managing infrastructure construction projects, and at…
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Poor Planning and Project Selection
Scarce resources are too often spent on poorly-selected projects that fail to achieve benefits commensurate with their cost. The result can be under-used assets and poor service delivery at a higher…
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Getting Infrastructure Right: A Framework For Better Governance
Presentation for the Third Global Roundtables on Infrastructure Governance and Tools
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Insufficient Funds
Infrastructure investment is typically under-funded—that is, most countries are not investing enough to meet strategic objectives, such as universal access or poverty eradication. This suggests that…
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How PPPs Are Used: Sectors and Services
PPPs have been used in a wide range of sectors to procure different kinds of assets and services. In all cases, the PPP project constitutes or contributes to the provision of public assets or…
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What PPP is Not: Other Types of Private Involvement
Besides defining the essence and the main features of PPPs, it is also helpful to clarify what they are not. This is useful to help us understand why the various features of the PPP model all…
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Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships
Akitoby, Bernardin, Richard Hemming, and Gerd Schwartz. 2007."Public investment and public-private partnerships." Economic Issues 40, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
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Role and Use of Advisers in Preparing and Implementing PPP Projects
Role and Use of Advisers in Preparing and Implementing PPP Projects, 2014This publication aims to help public contracting authorities, especially less experienced ones, to understand what they…
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Common Transport Infrastructure: A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper presents a structural general equilibrium model to analyze the effects on trade, welfare, and gross domestic product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on…
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Protecting Your PPP: Stabilizing partnerships in uncertain times
This article is extracted from Handshake Issue #16: Innovation.
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Brownfield infrastructure projects
The documents analyzes several issues concerning brownfield infrastructure projects.A brownfield infrastructure project entails taking over an existing asset that needs to be refurbished,…
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PPP Risk Allocation Tool 2019 Edition - Energy, Communications and Industrial Parks
This guidance tool is aimed to be used in conjunction with the World Bank’s Guidance on PPP Contractual Provisions 2019 Edition.
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Building Resilience to Climate Change: Investing in Adaptation
This paper presents the methodology for climate resilience audits, which provide a basis to identify, propose and discuss technical and investment solutions with the client.
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The Price of Easy Money
This article is extracted from Handshake Issue #17: Data.
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Mobilizing Islamic Finance: Basics & Relevance to PPPs
This is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group and the Islamic Development Bank.
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GI Forum 2018 Session 3: Good Practices in Scaling Up Investments in Infrastructure: Sustainability and Governance
The Global Infrastructure Forum 2018.
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Fostering Investment in Infrastructure
Fostering Investment in Infrastructure Lessons learned from OECD Investment Policy Reviews. The OECD’s report on fostering investment in infrastructure highlights the importance of a…
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OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure
On 20 March 2007, the OECD Council approved the OECD Principles for Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure to help governments work with private sector partners to finance and bring…
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Recommendation of the Council on Principles for Public Governance of Public-Private Partnerships (OECD 2012)
The Principles for Public Governance of Public-Private Partnerships can help governments get PPPs right, by providing best practices based on Member country experiences with what works (and what…
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A guidebook on the compliance review function of ADB’s accountability mechanism for private sector borrowers
ADB’s Accountability Mechanism has two functions: problem solving and compliance review. This guidebook explains the compliance review function in detail.