East Asia & Pacific private investors in infrastructure perception survey
Sharon Felzer
The aim of this survey was to develop a broader understanding of the attitudes and perceptions of business executives whose companies are currently investing, or considering investment, in infrastructure projects throughout developing countries in the East Asia and Pacific ...

Financing infrastructure in Africa how the region can attract more project finance
Robert Sheppard; Stephan von Klaudy; Geeta Kumar
Sub-Saharan Africa receives only a small share of private investment in infrastructure. One reason for this is its difficulties in getting project finance—difficulties that stem from the low creditworthiness of most African countries, the limits of local financial markets, ...

Granting and renegotiating infrastructure concessions: Doing it right
Jose Luis Guasch
This title is the fifth in an occasional series by the World Bank Institute intended to help meet the knowledge and information needs of infrastructure reformers and regulators. The book breaks new ground in relation to the design and implementation of concession contracts ...

Hybrid PPPs levering EU funds and private capital
PWC
The objective of this assignment has been to contribute to the discussions regarding the promotion of hybrid PPPs, primarily by the analysis of a small, select sample of such hybrid PPPs that have either successfully eached financial closure, or have failed to reach financial ...

India -Financing Infrastructure: addressing constraints and challenges
FPSD Unit - South Asia Region/World Bank
This note, which was prepared in response to a specific request from GoI’s Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), focuses primarily on financial sector related constraints to private investment in key infrastructure sectors in India, where the potential for greater private ...

India - Building capacities for public private partnerships

Both central government and the states are aiming to use public private partnerships (PPPs) more intensively to help meet gaps in the provision of basic services. India has seen real progress over the last 10 years in ttracting private investment into the infrastructure ...

Infrastructure in Latin America recent developments and key challenges Vol.1
Marianne Fay; Mary Morrison
This report is about infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the extraordinary transformations hat have shaped it over the last 15 ears. It is about the false hopes and disappointed expectations that have surrounded private sector participation, and ...

Infrastructure in Latin America recent developments and key challenges Vol.2
Marianne Fay ; Mary Morrison
This report is about infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean and the extraordinary transformations that have shaped it over the last 15 years. It is about the false hopes and disappointed expectations that have surrounded private sector participation, and also ...

Is the public sector comparator right for developing countries?
James Leigland
African officials have shown new interest in infrastructure projects involving private participation. But with so little experience with such projects,these officials often have limited knowledge about how best to assess their “value for money.” Some experts have suggested ...

Lifting constraints to public-private partnerships in South Asia
Bhavna Bhatia ; Neeraj Gupta
For countries in South Asia, bridging gaps in infrastructure is key to achieving goals for growth and poverty reduction. Over the years governments have underinvested in infrastructure assets and especially in maintaining them. Private investment has also been limited. Today ...

Mobilizing Private Finance for Local Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia
Michel Noel; W. Jan Brzeski
In recent years, the countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) have experienced a marked decline in investments by international private operators/investors in local infrastructure—much in line with the trend observed in other emerging markets. This decline has been particularly ...

Philippines: Meeting the infrastructure challenges
Infrastructure Sector Department East Asia and Pacific Region/The World Bank
The Philippines has attained important achievements in infrastructure provision, and access to basic infrastructure services tends to be higher than that of its neighbors. The government has also been undertaking critical reforms, such as promotion of private sector participation ...

Post-conflict infrastructure - trends in aid and investment flows
Jordan Schwartz; Pablo Halkyard
As war and civil strife subside, can governments turn to the private sector to restore basic services? Postconflict countries suffer from disproportionately low levels of private investment in infrastructure, with only small-scale service providers likely to emerge during ...

Private participation in infrastructure in developing countries :trends, impacts, and policy lessons
Clive Harris
Over the last decade, governments around the world pursued policies to involve the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. The scale of this move away from the hitherto dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated ...

Private participation in infrastructure projects in the Republic of Korea
Paul Noumba Um; Severine Dinghem1
In the aftermath of the 1997 East-Asian financial crisis, the government of the Republic of Korea published a Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Act in order to remove the main impediments to private investment in infrastructure sectors. The implementation of ...

Private solutions for infrastructure in Lesotho

This Country Framework Report for Lesotho is one of a series of country reviews aimed at improving the environment for private sector involvement in infrastructure. Prepared at the request of the government concerned,Country Framework Reports have three main objectives: • ...

Private solutions for infrastructure in Rwanda
The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility and the World Bank Group
This Country Framework Report for Rwanda is one of the first in a series of country reviews aimed at improving the environment for private sector involvement in infrastructure. Prepared at the request of the Rwandan government, the report has three main objectives: • ...

Private Participation in Infrastructure in China
Michel Bellier; Yue Maggie Zhou
The report that follows was prepared by the World Bank Group to help improve China’s approach to private participation in infrastructure-focusing on roads, water and sanitation, and power generation-by expanding foreign direct investment and domestic financing in such projects. ...

Public Private Partnership units what are they, and what do they do
Mark Dutz; Clive Harris; Inderbir Dhingra; Chris Shugart
As governments turn to the private sector to provide services once delivered by the public sector, they must learn new skills. An increasingly common way to provide the new capacities needed is to establish public-private partnership units—as new agencies or as special cells ...

Revival of private participation in developing country infrastructure
Michel Kerf; Ada Karina Izaguirre
Private participation in infrastructure projects in developing countries plummeted after the 1997 Asian crisis and followed a broadly declining trend for several years afterward. However, in 2004 and 2005 investment in such projects increased sharply. Meanwhile, the distribution ...

The role of developing country firms in infrastructure a new class of investors emerges
Michael Schur; Stephan von Klaudy; Georgina Dellacha
Developing country investors have emerged as a major source of investment finance for infrastructure projects with private participation. Indeed, in 1998–2004 these investors accounted for more of this finance in transport across developing regions—and for more in South ...

Urban infrastructure finance from private operators what have we learned from recent experience
Patricia Clarke Annez
The author examines the role of private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in mobilizing finance for key urban services, that is, urban roads, municipal solid waste management, and water and sanitation since the early 1990s when private participation came to be seen as ...

Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries
Trujillo, Lourdes;Goicoechea, Ana;Estache, Antonio
This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability, or quality of services. It also shows ...

Vietnam’s infrastructure challenge - infrastructure strategy cross-sectoral issues

In the past decade Vietnam has made spectacular progress in GDP growth and poverty reduction. This report on Infrastructure Strategy - Cross Sectoral Issues is one of six volumes dealing with Vietnam’s Infrastructure Challenge. It deals with cross-sectoral issues that are ...

Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership
Serebrisky, Tomas; Estache, Antonio;
The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public sector returns as regulator, ...

Connecting East Asia - a new framework for Infrastructure

Infrastructure has always played a central rolein the East Asian development model: to promote economic growth, to share the benefits of growth with poorer groups and ommunities, and to connect countries ithin the region and with the rest of the world. There is little ...