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Regulation by Contract: A New Way to Privatize Electricity Distribution?

In many developing countries, both governments and investors have expressed disappointment with the performance of recently privatized electricity distribution companies. This paper examines whether…

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Infrastructure Finance: Traffic Risk in Start-Up Toll Facilities

The publication of this study reflects the continued commitment of the European Infrastructure Financing Ratings team to coverage of the highway sector. It is intended to enhance our enviable…

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Traffic Forecasting Risk Study Update 2005: Through Ramp-Up and Beyond

Traffic Forecasting Risk Study Update 2005: Through Ramp-Up And Beyond. Since 2002, Standard & Poor's has been compiling data on toll road traffic forecasting performance, comparing…

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National Public Private Partnership Guidelines - Volume 4: Public Sector Comparator Guidance

The National PPP Guidelines provide a framework that enables both the public and private sectors to work together to improve public service delivery through private sector provision of…

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National Public Private Partnership Guidelines - Volume 2

The National PPP Guidelines provide a framework that enables the public and private sectors to work together to improve public service delivery through private sector provision of infrastructure and…

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Disincentivising Overbidding for Toll Road Concessions

This study focuses on the phenomenon of overbidding for toll road concessions. Overbidding refers to bidding beyond an asset’s worth, typically in the transport sector through the submission of over-…

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National Public Private Partnership Guidelines - Volume 7: Commercial Principles for Economic Infrastructure

National Public Private Partnership Guidelines. These National PPP Guidelines: National Commercial Principles for Economic Infrastructure ("NCPs for Economic Infrastructure") detail the…

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U.S. Engineers' Association Report 2009

ASCE’s 2009 Report Card provided an assessment of the condition and need for investment of 15 infrastructure categories, including, for the first time, levees.

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The Infrastructure Report Card website

The Infrastructure Report Card website discusses several key criteria regarding infrastructure quality: level of maintenance, capacity, physical condition, funding, public safety,…

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The Buenos Aires Water Concession

The Buenos Aires concession shows how important transparent, rule-based decision-making is to maintain public trust in regulated infrastructure.

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Climate Screening and Adaptation Review and Evaluation Procedures

Provides an overview of AfDB’s Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy which includes climate screening at the project preparation level.

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Public-Private Partnership Handbook (ADB)

This Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Handbook is designed for the staff of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries’ clients. It provides an overview of the role, design…

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Handbook for Integrating Risk Analysis in the Economic Analysis of Projects

The purpose of this Handbook is to support the development of a practical and operationally relevant methodological framework for the analysis of risk in project design and project economic analysis.

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Handbook for the Economic Analysis of Water Supply Projects

Water is rapidly becoming a scarce resource in almost all countries and cities with growing population on the one hand, and fast growing economies, commercial and developmental activities…

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ADB - Safeguards

ADB's environmental and social safeguards are a cornerstone of its support to inclusive economic growth and environmental sustainability in Asia and Pacific. In July 2009, ADB's Board of Directors…

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Public Private Partnerships Programme (4Ps)

The Public Private Partnerships Programme (4Ps) is a body set up by the predecessors to the Local Government Association to assist local authorities in England and Wales develop and deliver PFI…

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A Guide to Contract Management for PFI and PPP Projects

The aim of the guide is to be a user-friendly, quick reference strategic route map for local authority project directors and contract managers who are in the process of procuring and managing…

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Global Infrastructure Forum 2017 - Publications

This 2017 forum was co-hosted by the European Investment Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank and held in IDB headquarters in Washington, DC on April 22, 2017.

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2016 Global Infrastructure Forum

This 2016 forum was the first time that the heads of all of the MDBs came together on a stage to discuss infrastructure, reflecting the importance of the topic, and their commitment to multilateral…

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2018 Global Infrastructure Forum - Outcomes & Statements

This 2018 forum was hosted by the Asian Development Bank and held at the Laguna Villas in Bali, Indonesia on October 13, 2018.

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Webinars on Legal and Regulatory Framework in PPPs

The World Bank Group's Open Learning Campus (OLC) hosts a series of webinars relating to legal and regulatory frameworks in PPPs.

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PPP Toolkit India

Online PPP Tool, Public Private Partnership. 

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PPIAF-Resources

Public- Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, Website. The PPIAF website includes reviews of PPP projects in several developing countries.

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Innovation : Handshake, A Journal on Public-Private Partnerships

The International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Handshake series comprises quarterly publications, each focusing on the use of PPPs in a different sector or context.

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Exploring Public–Private Partnership in the Irrigation and Drainage Sector in India

The Asian Development Bank's scoping study on irrigation and drainage identifies the areas where private sector participation can be envisaged in consonance with India's policy…