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Madagascar: Port of Toamasina
Brief on IFC's PPP advisory support to the government of Madagascar to structure a 20-year concession for the operation, maintenance, financing, rehabilitation, and development of the container…
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Port Investment and Container Shipping Markets
Large-scale port projects have irreversible effects on land use and multiple impacts on the local economy and local community. They affect the way that the regional and national economy operates as a…
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Port reform in Nigeria
Over a two-year period, beginning in late 2004, the Nigerian federal government implemented one of the most ambitious port concessioning programs ever attempted. The success of this program resulted…
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Handshake Issue #6: Air & Sea PPPs
Handshake Issue #6: Air & Sea & PPPs examines how public-private partnerships (PPPs) push air and sea transport development forward with greater speed and richer benefits.
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Airport Economics in Latin America and the Caribbean
The book presents a positive and unbiased analysis of events, rather than a normative analysis of what should be done to reform the airport sector or to attract private participation. It focuses on…
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Case-Study on Delhi Airport Metro Express
This case was written by O.P. Agarwal of the World Bank and Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez of the Harvard Kennedy School. The case is intended to serve as a basis for class room discussion only. It does not…
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Investment in Air Transport Infrastructure
This paper discusses the development of appropriate private sector participation (PSP) to optimize the provision of air transport infrastructure (ATI). It is aimed primarily at government policy…
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Uncovering the Drivers of Utility Performance
This book conducts a micro-level analysis of various determinants of infrastructure sector performance that affect development. This book focuses on the distribution segment of three basic…
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Recharging the River and Growing Incomes in Jordan
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Using a Private Operator to Establish a Corporatized Public Water Utility
In post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa, the city water authority had fallen into disarray (a common situation with urban services). In 2001, a public-private partnership …
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Yerevan Water Supply
This case study focuses largely on how the Government of Armenia first embarked on private sector participation in its water supply and sewerage sector, which was through the 4-year management…
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Running Water in India’s Cities
The five projects, in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh, provide a detailed analysis of the process, politics, and preparation of PPP projects in India. They represent all PPP…
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All
What is the secret to arranging successful water PPPs in the Philippines? To answer this question, the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) examined eight water …
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Water in Bucharest
In March 2000, Bucharest entered into a concession contract for its water utility with the aim of turning around the utility’s faltering performance. Under the private operator the utility has raised…
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Small Utility Access to Market Credit: Lessons and Options
This report examines issues surrounding access to market-based financing by small water utilities towards developing an intervention program. A rapid assessment looked at the systematic constraints…
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Opportunities and Challenges for Small Scale Private Service Providers in Electricity and Water Supply Evidence from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, and the Philippines
This study provides an in-depth look at Small Scale Private Service Providers (SPSPs) of electricity and water and is based on a recent firm-level survey conducted in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, and…
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Open For Business
An exciting shift is happening in Senegal’s water and sanitation sectors. Long lauded for its successful urban water Public Private Partnership (PPP), which began in 1996,1 Senegal is now seeking…
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Creating a Sustainable Sanitation Cycle in Kenya
Sanergy is an innovative business model developed to provide affordable and accessible sanitation facilities throughout Africa's informal settlements
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Selling Sanitation
Selling Sanitation is a joint International Finance Corporation-Water and Sanitation Program (World Bank) initiative that aims to help millions of people across Africa get access to the…
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Water Business Kit Kenya
This Water Business Kit is published jointly by IFC and Aquaya. It is intended to provide small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs with a step-by-step guide to developing a water…
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Subsidizing Water Connections in Cameroon
A project brief on the Cameroon water connection scheme, the first GPOBA project to be implemented under an affermage contract. It is also the first subsidized water connection program…
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Output-Based Aid in the Philippines
A project brief on the Metro Manila water project that aims to provide access to water services through individual household connections to several low-income communities in Rizal…
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Charting Our Water Future
The report Charting Our Water Future was developed to take a first step in providing greater clarity on the scale, costs and tradeoffs of solutions to water scarcity. It is the result of a year-…