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Overcoming Barriers to Finance for Municipalities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Municipalities in low- and middle-income countries confront financing needs that greatly exceed available flows. Currently, most investment in municipal infrastructure is financed directly from…

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From the Bottom Up: How Small Power Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa

Most Sub-Saharan African countries try to promote rural electrification through both centralized and decentralized approaches. This guide focuses on the decentralized approach, providing practical…

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Mini Grids and the Arrival of the Main Grid: Lessons from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia

One of the key concerns raised by the developers of mini grids is "what will become of my mini grid when the main grid arrives?" This report presents detailed case studies of what happened to…

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Mini Grids for Half a Billion People: Market Outlook and Handbook for Decision Makers

Approximately 1.2 billion people will need to gain access to electricity to achieve universal access by 2030. The only way to achieve this is through a combination of the main grid extension, mini…

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PPPLRC 2018 Report

In 2018, the site continued to get high traffic, including 1,400,736 views over 596,584 unique visitors. Close to 210,000 visitors had an “interaction” with the site, such as downloading a document,…

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Sofia Airport Tender Documentation

Tender Document for the Designation of a Concessionaire and Awarding a Works Concession for Airport in Sofia of 5 July 2018 as amended on 29 March 2019 published by the Republic of Bulgaria,…

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Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) – Resilience: Policy and Guidance

This portal provide policies and guidances of U.S Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

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A Governance Framework for Climate-Relevant Public Investment Management

This report explains why strengthening the governance around public investment management is central to cutting inefficiencies and unblocking the climate finance needed to narrow Asia and the Pacific…

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Catalyzing Finance and Policy Solutions

The Asia–Pacific Climate Report is a knowledge initiative from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support Asia and the Pacific in combating climate change through policy reforms

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A Comparative Study on the Role of Public–Private Partnerships and Green Investment Banks in Boosting Low-Carbon Investments

Following the successful climate agreement in Paris, global attention shifted quickly tohow countries will achieve their nationally determined contributions. To achieve the goals,governments need to…

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State and Trends in Climate Adaptation Finance 2024

Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) report reviews overs global status and trends of adaptation finance and provides a deeper analysis of Africa at a regional level, given the heightened adaptation…

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Escaping the fragility trap

Escaping the Fragility Trap. Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development. London: International Growth Centre. LSE-Oxford. 2018. 

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Business Environment Reforms in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: What Works and Why?

Economies that are suffering from fragility, conflict and violence (three distinct yet interconnected elements of FCS) confront intractable poverty, and faltering growth – missing out on development…

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Challenges of Public Investment Management in Fragile and Conflict-affected States

Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCS) are often characterized by poor infrastructure and significant infrastructure gaps. 

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Legal and Regulatory Reform Toolkit for High-Integrity Carbon Markets

This toolkit offers countries a practical pathway to develop or strengthen their legal and regulatory frameworks for high-integrity carbon credit transactions, particularly under Articles 6.2 and 6.4…

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Public Private Partnerships - Construction, Protection, and Rehabilitation of Critical Infrastructure

This book provides examples and case studies demonstrating the application of public-private partnerships in the US, Europe, and Asia, discusses the potential for private sector investment in…

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Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives

Performance-Based Contracts (PBC) for Improving Utilities Efficiency: Experiences and Perspectives is a compendium of articles written by members of the PBC taskforce. 

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What triggers public-private partnership (PPP) renegotiations in the United States?

Public-private partnership (PPP) renegotiations and their outcomes have been studied extensively in Latin America and Europe but not in the United States.

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World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence

In a time when development progress has dipped to its weakest pace in 75 years, artificial intelligence (AI) offers developing economies a rare path to greater prosperity. World Development Report…

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Procurement and Renegotiation of Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure: Evidence, Typology and Tendencies

Law and Economics of Public Procurement Reforms collects the original contributions related to the new European Union Directives approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament, 1st ed., edited by Gustavo Piga…

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Going Beyond the Infrastructure Funding Gap: A South African Perspective

This report, Going Beyond the Infrastructure Funding Gap - A South African Perspective, quantifies the spending needed in education, transport, and water and sanitation to achieve the related SDGs.

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Pacific Infrastructure Maintenance Benchmarking Report

The Benchmarking Infrastructure Maintenance in Pacific Islands countries report is based on a study of infrastructure maintenance conducted in 2021 in close consultation with Development Partners,…

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The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure : Lights, Shadows, and the Road Ahead

This book presents the most in-depth study to date of the private sector participation experience in Latin America, and it substantially advances the existing literature by offering robust…

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World Development Report 2021 : Data for Better Lives

World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to…