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Handbook on Economic Analysis of Investment Operations
The goals of this Handbook are (a) to provide staff with analytical tools that are solidly grounded in economic theory, yet practical and simple to use, and (b) to make the approach to the…
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Sample Bidding Document: Procurement of Works and Services under Output- and Performance-based Road Contracts
This Sample Bidding Document for Procurement of Works and Services under Output-and Performance-Based Road Contracts (OPRC) has been issued by the World Bank on a trial basis to provide its…
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Deterring Corruption and Improving Governance in the Urban Water Supply & Sanitation Sector: A Sourcebook
This sourcebook focuses exclusively on network providers in the urban water and sanitation sector— the “water sector” for short. Of course, this doesn’t mean that small-scale, informal providers…
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Deterring Corruption and Improving Governance in the Electricity Sector
This Sourcebook is a set of modules with a coherent framework. Part I on assessing corruption risk, and Part II on reducing corruption, are divided into modules on particular topics of interest to…
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Deterring Corruption and Improving Governance in Road Construction and Maintenance
This is a Sourcebook on road construction and maintenance. The focus is on roads—and not other forms of transportation infrastructure, such as aviation, railways, ports, waterways and shipping, or…
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Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option
The Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (Cat DDO) is a contingent credit line that provides immediate liquidity to IBRD member countries in the aftermath of a natural…
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Guidelines Procurement of Goods, Works, and Non-Consulting Services
The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), a…
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Value-for-Money Analysis- Practices and Challenges
A World Bank report on Value for Money analysis presents evidence on practices from several countries, and on trends regarding the scope of value for money analysis and the relative…
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Mitigating the Impact of Drought on Energy Production and Fiscal Risk in Uruguay
Uruguay’s state-owned public electric company, Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) generates more than 80% of its energy needs from hydropower plans. When rainfall and/…
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Environmental and Social Framework: Setting Environmental and Social Standards for Investment Project Financing
The World Bank Environmental and Social Framework sets out the World Bank’s commitment to sustainable development, through a Bank Policy and a set of Environmental and Social Standards that are…
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City Creditworthiness Self-Assessment & Planning Toolkit
World Bank toolkit on city creditworthiness. It can be used to assess cities' preparedness for commercial-based transactions.
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World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And…
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Public Finance Management Act No. 1 of 1999 (South Africa)
The Public Finance Management Act (ZA 1999b) is the enabling legislation for PPPs
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Financing PF2 Projects: Opportunities for Islamic Project Finance
While this paper does not go into detail on how to structure a PF2 project using Islamic finance, it however argues that Islamic project finance holds a better promise for the financing of future PF2…
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The Green Book: Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government
The United Kingdom Government's Green Book on project assessment acknowledges this as a systematic problem and highlights the need to correct for optimism bias in project analysis.
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Financing PFI Projects in the Credit Crisis and the Treasury’s Response, Ninth Report of Session 2010-11
The Treasury of the United Kingdom outlines its response to the financial crisis, which included establishing an Infrastructure Finance Unit to provide lending at commercial terms to projects unable…
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Output-Based Specifications for PFI/PPP Projects
Please note this guidance was withdrawn on 23 November 2016.
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Government Response to Report on Private Finance Projects and Off-Balance Sheet Debt
Sets out HM Treasury’s response to the Select Committee’s report, providing further detail and commentary on the practices and results of PFI in the United Kingdom.
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Benchmarking and Market Testing in NHS PFI projects: Code of Best Practice
This Code of Best Practice provides guidance and advice on good practice to NHS Trusts, Project Companies and Service Providers about to embark on benchmarking and market testing in a PFI scheme, and…
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No Remedy for an Investor’s own Mismanagement: The award in the ICSID case Biwater Gauff vs Tanzania
On July 24, 2008, a panel of distinguished arbitrators (Gary Born, Toby Landau, Bernard Hanotiau) rendered an award in the case of Biwater Gauff (Tanzania) Ltd. v. United Republic of Tanzania.1…
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Roads to Nowhere: How corruption in public investment hurts growth
Drawing on cross-country analysis, argues that corruption reduces growth, by increasing public investment while reducing its productivity—increasing investment expenditure, but with lower expenditure…
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Islamic Finance and Economic Development: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future
Occasional Paper No. 370The Study starts by asking some fundamental qustions as to what role Islamic finance can play in socio-economic development, how similar or different it is from the…
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Managing PPPs for Budget Sustainability: The Case of PPPs in Portugal, from Problems to Solutions
Considering that Portugal is currently suffering one of the most severe financial crisis in its history, this paper examines to what extent PPPs have contributed to Portugal’s external debt problems…
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Quantitative Methods for the Preparation, Appraisal, and Management of PPI projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
This training workshop focused on the quantitative aspects of PPI projects, specifically on the cost-benefit analysis, financial and economic appraisal and risk analysis.
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Briefing Note 1: Payment Mechanisms in Operational PPP Projects
Describes experience with defining and implementing government-pays payment mechanisms in PPPs.