| Accelerated investment in infrastructure assets and delivery of related services represent a crucial ingredient for attainment of economic growth and social welfare as also expressed in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Traditionally, budgetary resources as well as limited public sector management capacity have set limits to the volume and quality of infrastructure investment and service delivery well below the demand for such services and the growth potential of a country. Public-private partnerships in infrastructure (PPPI) have become an important policy instrument which can enable developing countries to overcome these limits while better sharing financial, operating, technical and other risks with private sector providers of infrastructure assets, finance, and services. While PPPI is growing worldwide as a public policy practice, there remains a need for ongoing exchange of practitioner experience in order that the global lessons of PPPI can help improve the planning, design, promotion, implementation and monitoring of PPPI programs and projects.
The Global PPPI Portal represents a tool principally aimed at benefitting PPPI practitioners within public agencies mandated to design and/or implement PPPI programs. It is intended to serve as a forum for PPPI knowledge exchange for policy practitioners. This Portal is also intended to be a resource for the broader community of PPPI practitioners and stakeholders worldwide who seek to learn from and contribute to the growing stock of PPPI experience particularly as this is relevant to the issues facing developing countries.
The PPPI Team at the World Bank Institute looks forward to continue to work with the global PPPI community to find new ways to enrich this global knowledge exchange on PPPI practices and to thus help accelerate investment in and improve the quality of infrastructure investment and service delivery in our client countries and communities. Please feel free to contact us with your suggestions.
PPPI Team,
World Bank Institute
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