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PPP Reference Guide - PPP Cycle
Provides guidance on each stage of developing and implementing a PPP project—from initially identifying candidate projects to managing PPP contracts through the project lifetime. This module…
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PPP Reference Guide - PPP Framework
Describes the elements of a sound legal and institutional PPP framework—that is, the policy, processes, institutions, and rules that together define how PPPs will be identified and implemented, and…
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PPP Reference Guide - Introduction
Provides an overview of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)—what they are, how they are used to provide infrastructure assets and services, their benefits, and their pitfalls
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PPP Reference Guide - PPP Basics
The module provides an overview of PPPs, and discusses projects and contracts where there is a public interest in the provision of services and where the project involves long-life assets linked…
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Covid-19 and PPPs
'The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unforeseen major shock to the global economy and has affected infrastructure projects, and in particular PPPs, at all stages and in all sectors with implications…
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GCI Infrastructure Score
The 2019 edition of The Global Competitiveness Report series, first launched in 1979, features the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 (GCI 4.0).The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is…
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Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Database
The Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Project Database currently provides information on more than 10,000 infrastructure projects dating from 1984 to 2023 and is updated with last year’s…
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Benchmarking Infrastructure Development Website
Benchmarking Infrastructure Development is an initiative of the World Bank’s Infrastructure Finance, PPPs & Guarantees (IPG) Group that benchmarks regulatory frameworks against internationally…
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Infrastructure Indicators
The database contains 1,400 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going even beyond 50 years.
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Leveraging PPPs to tackle climate change – A new resource
With COVID-19 still dominating the news it may be easy to overlook another global crisis: the unprecedented extreme climate events during the past year that can be linked to climate change:…
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State of the Global Climate 2020
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Low-Carbon Infrastructure - Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) 2002-H1 2017
After 2010, favorable government policies led to a surge of low-carbon projects. The percentage of low-carbon projects receiving government support grew from 3% before 2010 to 51% afterwards. The…
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A common goal: More consistency and risk analysis for infrastructure PPPs
There’s a strong emphasis on “quality infrastructure” afoot and we emphatically support it, as the focus plays a fundamental role as governments seek to deliver on their economic, social, and…
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EBRD Covid-19 Response: Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Discussion Paper
Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Discussion Paper
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How will coronavirus affect public-private partnerships?
The virus’ economic impacts on PPPs will place a tremendous burden on project stakeholders, users, the private corporate sector, and the public sector for weeks, months, or years.
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How the World Bank is looking at COVID-19 and public-private partnerships, right now and post-crisis
We know that healthy cooperation with the private sector will be more important than ever as countries exit the COVID-19 crisis even more fiscally constrained.
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COVID-19 and infrastructure: A very tricky opportunity
COVID-19 forces us to consider challenges that existed before the crisis that are fundamental to how we tackle infrastructure provision over the long run. More
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Countries must seize opportunity to build infrastructure sustainably in the wake of COVID-19
Jérôme Haegeli, Group Chief Economist for Swiss Re and Co-Chair of the Global Infrastructure Facility’s Advisory Council, lays out five key principles that can serve as a blueprint to help countries…
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Brave new world – the impact of COVID-19 on upcoming and ongoing PPP tenders
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because it was a different world then. So which way should we go from here?” – Alice in Wonderland As we look into this new year, it does indeed bring a…
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Bouncing back is not enough. Let’s bounce forward to infrastructure resilience
If you’ve watched Game of Thrones, you might find that the Night King and his White Walkers are an eerily precise allegory for climate change. It…
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A year helping governments roll with COVID-19’s punches to infrastructure PPPs: What we’ve learned
To ensure we capture lessons learned and share knowledge and current practice widely, the World Bank has produced a Practice Note on Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Operational PPP Projects…
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2019 brought private investment in infrastructure to more countries: Is there a message for policymakers amid COVID-19?
Infrastructure financing has evolved in order to cope with the risks specific to different environments, and DFIs have been playing a key role in providing more innovative financing options. …
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UNEP Report: Sustainable infrastructure can drive development and COVID-19 recovery
The report outlines guiding principles on integrating sustainability into government's decision making on infrastructure projects.
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IADB: The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on the Consequences of COVID-19 and on the Mitigation of Future Effects
The appearance and spread of COVID-19 have accentuated the connectivity and digitization lag in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The lockdowns imposed to reduce the spread of the virus…
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Logistics
Logistics firms, which are involved in the movement, storage, and flow of goods, have been directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.